Word: deadpan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This was hardly over before the President got a hatpin-sized jab from a new di rection: the deadpan announcement from the railway unions that they proposed to strike, after he had just been assured that they would not. At his press conference next day, the President seemed to be seething with repressed indignation against the union leaders...
After months of chasing and capturing atomic spies, the FBI finally made an inevitable announcement last week: its Denver agents had arrested an atomic souvenir collector. The G-Men announced the gist of the case with their usual deadpan gravity. The accused was a 28-year-old University of Denver metallurgical engineer named Sanford Lawrence Simons. He had admitted that while working at Los Alamos in 1946 he had stolen a pinhead-sized piece of plutonium and kept it buried under his house for four years...
...Notes. In the column, "This England," the magazine regularly passes on to readers with an amused smile such deadpan comments on manners & morals as "The true story of the worst criminal in London's history. An admirably ghoulish play suitable for all the family. From poster for Shepherd's Bush Empire...
...civilians. They had collected more than $1,000,000 in ransoms from 30 kidnapings. Like Robin Hood's men they were said to rob only the rich & powerful. Half in hero worship and half in fear, the local peasants clamped their lips tight and kept their faces deadpan when police asked questions about Giuliano...
Morse's deadpan conclusion: in addition to insuring respectability, following these general rules is often enough to guarantee a man a lifetime career in the rank of instructor or even, perhaps, assistant professor...