Word: passe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brown seemed to take everyone by surprise. Joe Paterno's short pass to Frank Mahoney and his long one to Chuck Nelson covered 67 yards altogether, and it was a simple thing for Paterno to sneak over from the three-yard line...
...period and eliminated an excellent chance to tie the score. Harvard took the kick-off opening the second half and went all the way to the Brown three. An unintentional clipping penalty stopped the attack, for the Crimson could never get moving after that. The Lowenstein-to-Henry "transcontinental" pass play produced Harvard's final touchdown...
Babies & Baggage. Four days later, the travelers passed the last inhabited outpost on China's side of the grim Himalayas. As they crossed and recrossed treacherous river rapids, babies and baggage splashed repeatedly into the icy stream. At 15,800-foot-high Yngi Pass, the hearts of the horses began to pound dangerously. Vincoe Paxton helped slit the beasts' nostrils so that bleeding would keep their arteries from bursting. She swatted maggots from the festering wounds torn by saddle ropes on the animals' sides. Nausea, dizziness, frostbite and insomnia meanwhile began to affect the travelers themselves...
Some 20 days later, Paxton's party reached the first settlement in Ladakh Province, on the Indian side of the Himalayas. But the worst day was still to come. At Kardang Pass the travelers faced a 400-foot glacier, slick as mirror-glass and tilted at a 45° angle. They dismounted and crept on foot up a narrow path hacked in the ice. Donkeys and horses had to be helped up the treacherous slope. Gallant Vincoe had come close to the end of her tether. The caravan cook encouraged her, step by step: "Put this foot here...
...proper to pass a law if its constitutionality is in doubt," he said, "but it is improper, even if the bill is a desirable one, to pass it if it is unconstitutional...