Word: passing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Phony Payoff. To pass the British counterfeits, the Nazis installed a confederate in an Austrian castle, had him pass the bills in neutral countries in return for a one-third share of the profits. Gestapo informers, who insisted on hard currency for their work outside Germany, also got paid off in the phony pounds. Among those doublecrossed: the Italians who found out where Mussolini was held before his rescue by Paratrooper Otto Skorzeny; the famous valet "Cicero" (real name: Eliaza Bazna), who stole secrets from the safe of the British Ambassador to Turkey. Ultimately, some of the counterfeit notes turned...
...Blue Pencil. Almost from the start, the Soviet censors reneged on the government's promise to pass all copy unscathed. Glavlit, the Soviet censorship agency, combed some of the outgoing cables carefully, eliminating, among other things, mention of its own blue-pencil activity. The American Broadcasting Co. was ruled off the international air in Moscow" for "tampering" with Khrushchev's lines in his famed kitchen debate with Nixon at the American exhibition-a charge that the U.S. State Department promptly rejected...
Another six years will pass before Bretons again walk in the footsteps of their saint. Oldtimers thought they noted particular fervor among the marchers this year, recalling the great devout pilgrimages before World War I. Still, some recalled that St. Ronan had walked barefooted. Nowadays, said a local priest, "just a few go without shoes-usually only those who have some specially profound penitence to make...
...fourth quarter of 1959, the U.S. economy will pass a long-awaited milestone far ahead of schedule. Americans by then will be producing, earning, spending and investing at the rate of $500 billion yearly, raising the U.S. to the level of a half-trillion-dollar economy. For each of the nation's 45 million families, the breakthrough will represent some $11,000 worth of goods and services produced by U.S. factories, farms, mines, government and service industries. The total will be many billions greater than the combined gross national products of the Soviet Union, Great Britain, West Germany...
Unlike fine wines, books rarely improve with rotation. Nevertheless, the record industry has set the stateliest periods of English poetry and prose to spinning on thousands of U.S. phonographs at 33-1/3 r.p.m. Sampling the newer releases, the auditory reader can pass his evenings with anything from a spoken history of baseball (Columbia) to Physicist Edward Teller's richly Magyar dissertation for Spoken Arts on the "thee-ory of relateevity" ("it weel sound to you crazy...