Word: passingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These silent little victims stare as if in mute reproach to our generation of "adults" whose puerile irresponsibility let this war come to pass. Weary, aged and disillusioned beyond their years, they plead the case for relief and rehabilitation far more eloquently than their elders who . . . have so grievously failed them...
...John L. Lewis sharpened one of them still further when negotiations over a new coal contract broke up without results. With such an example before him, the President might well convince himself that the pending bill did not overly disturb the rights of labor. Besides, Congress would probably pass it over his veto. But a tax cut was directly up to Truman. The Republicans did not have the votes to beat a veto there...
Above the green woods and fields of Maryland the sunny, early evening sky was cloudless and clear. From their DC-3, Civil Aeronautics Board inspectors watched Eastern Airlines' Miami-bound plane pass their slower craft and wing majestically down the airway to the south. The CABmen were flying back to Washington from LaGuardia Field after investigating the worst disaster in the history of U.S. civil aviation (see below). The plane that had just passed was doomed to figure in an even more horrible...
...Democratic dinner, ostensibly in honor of New York's Mayor O'Dwyer, brought more than $100,000 profit into the state committee's bank account. But it left some serious political gas pains. In an effort to by-pass the imponderables of intraparty protocol, the state committee had selected a dais long enough only to seat the guest of honor, three Cabinet members, four state party committeemen, and sundry divines. Seated on the indiscriminate floor were such party stalwarts as Jim Farley, ex-Senator James Mead, the party's 1946 candidate for governor, ex-Governor Herbert...
...Nicaragua's President this week lolled back happily. To friends who dropped in to pass the hot, sticky hours, he confided that his power was growing daily. The Boss had sent around a car for his very own use and some of the soldiers of the presidential guard now saluted as he passed. The people of Managua called him "La Muñeca Gordita" (the Fat Dolly). His belly shook and his great laugh echoed down the empty halls. No one was taking President Benjamin Lacayo-Sacasa* seriously, least of all Lacayo-Sacasa...