Word: passingly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...rare U.S. citizen who could pass a detailed quiz on the little piece of Asiatic peninsula he had just guaranteed with troops, planes and ships. But that didn't seem to matter. Across the nation there was solid popular agreement that Harry Truman had acted wisely and swiftly. "I'll tell ya," said Evar Malin, 37, who farms his mother's 140 acres north of Sycamore, Ill., "I think we done the right thing. We had to take some kind of action against the Russians; maybe been a good idea if we'd stepped...
...many seemed to be grateful for the end of an era of uncertainty. The Christian Science Monitor's Washington bureau chief, Joseph C. Harsch, a resident of the capital for 20 years, reported: "Never before in that time have I felt such a sense of relief and unity pass through the city...
...people reject every ancient truth and tradition in ethics and politics and art because thereby they can show off better at cocktail parties. Civilization is an infinitely fragile bundle of accumulated habits and restraints. The necessary conservative function of any generation is not just to enjoy itself but to pass on this bundle in good condition to the next generation...
...film wrapped around Darryl Zanuck's head on your June 12 cover wouldn't pass through any projector anywhere. All movie film has four perforations to each frame...
...Devil also became the butt of some of the first fine sallies of Yankee humor. One of them is an ancestor of a long posterity of country-bumpkin v. city-slicker witsnappers that pass current to this...