Word: passingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Howard McGrath, who is loyal but no mover and shaker, was called to the White House, gently given the word. Then McGrath announced that Boyle would be executive vice chairman, run headquarters, share in policymaking. There was much more to it than that: Bill Boyle would parcel out, or pass on, the jobs in the lush fields above civil service and below Cabinet rank (among them: judgeships, U.S. district attorneys, key postmasterships). Eventually he would probably take title officially from McGrath. His first goal: to buck for a big registration in 1950, to avoid the off-year election slump that...
...Myles Huntington took a goal-mouth pass from his left wing, Tom Moseley, and made it 4 to 1. For the next ten minutes, while the crowd of some 4000 roared excitedly, Harvard rushed the cage repeatedly, and with 15 seconds to go in the period Lew Preston took a pass from Coulter and scored...
...lung power to help him blow out the candles. Later on, she let it be known that in a forthcoming movie she would take a fling at the role of Ophelia, in a strictly jive version of Hamlet. Sample lyrics, written for her by Frank (Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition) Loesser...
...week seemed more keyed up than Mike Mikan. Their hero was 27-year-old ex-Marine Joe Fulks of the Philadelphia Warriors, who was just 19 points behind Mikan for the scoring lead of the Basketball Association of America. Most Arena-goers were rooting for Joe to overtake and pass Mikan, but it was not the night...
There no longer seems any need for many of the obscurities in Eimi, but the book as a whole grows more pertinent as the years pass. It is certainly the wittiest, and just possibly the most reliable, of all the Moscow traveler accounts...