Word: passe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other benefits which the company estimated at an overall 62½?-an-hour increase. Trying out a new tactic, striking members of the United Auto Workers Local 501 observed Ladies' Day on the picket lines. Helmeted, club-swinging strikers' wives attacked three Bell engineers who tried to pass through. Deputy sheriffs, clubs at the ready, promptly arrested a handful of the women, then found themselves engaged in a pitched battle with the husbands. The melee was broken up only after the sheriff ordered tear-gas bombs dropped from a low-flying helicopter hovering overhead...
...Pass defense practice preceded the offensive work, with Henry simulating a T-formation quarterback and doing the passing. The varsity also practiced extra points and field goals...
...headed north. The first day out, we were running on a reach through the Zuider Zoe, when one of these postcard sloops came shipping up astern, pulled out to pass, and then cut under our bow. We all politely stared at its four man crew. They stared right back, and one of them scrambled into his cabin. He promptly reappeared holding an enormous red swallow-tail flat, which he bont onto a halliard and ran up to the top of his mast. After a few minutes he pulled it down again and sailed off. We were very concerned about...
...Lost Boundaries," currently playing at the University Theater is the story of such a negro. After graduating from medical school, Dr. Carter (Mel Ferrer) reluctantly decides to "pass" when he finds that no negro hospital will accept him because he is too light and no white institution will take him because he frankly admits he is a negro...
...making the announcement of the sweeping policy change yesterday, Gray called on Congress to pass legislation to "prevent grave abuses" of GI education benefits...