Pasco

[ pas-koh ]

/ ˈpæs koʊ /

a city in S Washington, on the Columbia River.

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Pasco says a federal law would place unnecessary pressure on officers and make citizens skeptical of their motives.
After Trayvon Martin: Is It Time to End Racial Profiling?|Miranda Green|May 13, 2012|DAILY BEAST
From Pasco there are steamers running to Celilo, conveying wheat.
The Columbia River|William Denison Lyman
From the village of Pasco two roads diverge, the one leading to Lima, the other to Tarma.
Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests|J. J. von Tschudi
We soon discover that we are near Pasco on the east bank and Kennewick on the west bank of the River.
The Columbia River|William Denison Lyman

There had been a fire and about all there was left was safe which I was told belonged to the county, Pasco being a county seat.
Lyman's History of old Walla Walla County, Vol. 1 (of 2)|William Denison Lyman
The admiral, of whose nearness Pasco was not aware, called him, and asked what was the matter.
The Life of Nelson, Vol. II. (of 2)|A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan