Word: passing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After the elections, Delgado lost his job as director of civil aviation. In January, fearing he was about to be arrested, he fled to the Brazilian embassy. Though Salazar contemptuously let it be known that Delgado was in no danger, Delgado would not leave without a written safe-conduct pass. Last week's complicated ritual at the airport resulted from a compromise worked out by a Brazilian newspaperman so that neither Delgado nor Salazar need give way on prideful procedure points. With Delgado gone, Salazar, the gentle-seeming but tough ex-professor of economics who rules Portugal, could look...
Slow Start. At the moment, such a Bundeswehr is still a long way off. The twelve divisions exist largely on paper. Even the seven "combat ready'' divisions transferred to NATO during the past two years are training groups through which thousands of raw recruits pass annually, later to be peeled off as cadres for other divisions. Of the total planned strength of 200,000 men, the army today has only 123,000. Of the 2,500 pilots the new Luftwaffe will need, only 650 are trained, and new pilots are qualifying at the rate of only...
What changed Muñoz' mind was an upsurge of statehood sentiment after admission to the Union of Hawaii, which is also a racially dissimilar, noncontiguous U.S. possession. As a first step, he promised to request the island legislature to pass a resolution asking the U.S. Congress to grant whatever status the Puerto Rican people may choose in a plebiscite. Muñoz' proposal seems to be the proper start: U.S.-Puerto Rico relations are regulated by a compact that can be changed only by mutual consent. It also set the stage for a hot argument in Congress...
...been mainly the responsibility of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern) and the Congregationalists. But now the 57 missionaries who remain will be "fraternal workers" under the authority of the new church, and about $1,000,000 worth of schools, colleges, hospitals and other properties will pass to Arab Christian ownership...
...Presbyterian Minister George E. Sweazey in this week's Christian Century, should a Christian "inquire into a man's ethnic origins before deciding whether to be concerned about his religious state? Who is my neighbor? If a person in spiritual need is of Hebrew ancestry, shall we pass by on the other side, hoping that a rabbi will chance to come along and care...