Word: passingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pass these defendants a poisoned chalice," said U.S. Prosecutor Robert Jackson in 1945 at the start of the first Nürnberg war crimes trials, "is to put it to our own lips as well. We must summon such detachment and intellectual integrity to our task that this trial will commend itself to posterity as fulfilling humanity's aspiration to do justice...
...Impossible. Old Bill discovered that the British government had known this all along but was not intending to try his son's murderers. Using his life savings and the railroad pass he held as a retired railroad employee, he traveled all over Britain interviewing everyone he could find who had known his son. He wrote letters to China and the U.S., and even took a trip to Wisconsin to find Bridge House veterans. He besieged his local M.P. with evidence and demands that the government act. "It had proved impossible," War Secretary Shinwell told the House of Commons last...
...Crimson came back in the second period to take a temporary 2 to 1 lead. Scorers were Joe Kittredge (on a pass from fellow-sophomore Dave Anderson) and Bill Garrity, just a minute later...
Brown jumped away to a quick load before the slim crowd of 1200 at the Providence Arena when first line pivot Casey whacked in a shot on the end of a three-man pass play at 26 seconds of the opening period...
...latest arrivals is often like looking at yesterday's skirts and hats-they appear more "dated" than the ancient wimple or the crinoline. Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes is still fresh as a daisy after 300 years, but who now hums Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition, or remembers the purple passages of Norman ("This is It, kid") Corwin...