Word: passingly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...week Congress had been tapping its foot, waiting for the President's veto of the McCarran anti-Communist bill. In the House, when the page boys burst in with mimeographed copies of the message, members grabbed eagerly at the bundles, helped pass them out. With little more than a glance, they began shouting: "Vote! Vote!" And minutes after the clerk had intoned Harry Truman's 5,500 words of warning, they had overridden the veto without a word of debate, by a thumping...
...begun without good provision of money beforehand . . . is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews...
...refusal to start the buildup of its armed forces in 1948, as was urgently proposed by Forrestal. If the U.S. is again unwilling to meet the cost of defense-and fails again to remember the lessons of the past-then its blast in any war to come will quickly pass away...
...make them feel that they are so treated." Then, in a voice breaking with emotion, Nehru turned on the heat. Said he: "I am ashamed at the way this question has been looked at by Congressmen . . . You cannot waver. If you want me to lead Congress you have to pass the [Nehru] resolution unequivocally ... If you do not want me to remain Prime Minister you tell me and I shall go." Nehru's resolution was passed amid loud acclamation. Even Mystic Tandon, in a 15,000-word speech studded with quotations from Hindu epics, agreed with the Premier...
...Harvard football team play this fall and can't make the price of the seats, the Harvard Athletic Association has the solution. Every fall a number of students, Business School men among them, act as ushers at all home games. There is no remuneration except a free pass...