Word: passingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...either side of the issue believes that OSHA'S activities will be substantially affected. There may be some early delays while OSHA inspectors learn how to get warrants, but this phase should pass quickly. In any event, smart employers will probably not often insist on a warrant. Doing so may just make the inspectors more suspicious and more demanding in their inspections...
...base of a telephone pole on Fulner Street in South Amboy. Waiting for him there was a red coffee can containing $3,000, which brought his total payoff to $16,000. The can also held another message: "By the way, have you paid attention to my request to pass over to us films of the latest documents dated 1976-1978, if possible?" Some of the documents requested dealt with a secret underwater acoustic system that allows the Navy to identify Soviet submarines by then" distinctive sound patterns. The system can also tell a submarine's location, speed and course...
...living on the edge of starvation. And corruption is a way of life. (According to popular belief, Mobutu simply does not pay his soldiers, which is why they set up road-blocks in places like Lubumbashi and Matadi, waving submachine guns and demanding bribes before they let drivers pass...
...piano aficionado connected with the International Piano Archives of the University of Maryland happened to pass by the church with a cassette recorder just before the recital. He went in, heard the beginnings of the astonishing performance-the sort of huge sound that Anton Rubinstein reputedly possessed -and taped it. The discovery was akin to some great archaeological find. The pianist was Ervin Nyiregyházi (pronounced near-edge-hah-zee), a Hungarian-born prodigy who made his debut at six, toured Europe as a Wunderkind and conquered Carnegie Hall in 1920, at 17. Then, following a string of public...
...They live in the same building yet you see them pass each other on the stairs without talking. Time goes by and he looks older and frailer while she, despite her bulk, decays faster until one day she faints climbing the stairs. This stirs him; he visits, brings flowers and introduces himself. She offers him candy which he won't eat, doctor's orders. But in the end she wins; he dies first, which is fitting...