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Word: expresses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opponent was Incumbent Lee Price, a Republican. The big campaign issue was a proposed $30 million express highway across the city. Republican Price plumped hard for it. Democrat Lundy said he'd kill it 30 minutes after he was sworn in. He adopted a homely slogan: "I may not be so blamed smart, but I can find my way home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OKLAHOMA: Man with a Mad On | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...signed or initialed articles and criticisms represent the views of the author. They do not necessarily express the position of the CRIMSON...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Nature of the Test in Italy | 4/17/1948 | See Source »

Miss Cornell is the biggest disappointment of the evening. She seems temperamentally unable to express the corrupting sensuality of Cleopatra, or her intrinsic failure to see life from a consistent or serious point of view. She throws away good lines, looks foolish when she tries to act silky, and frequently seems lost in the part, In her biggest dramatic scenes she turns her role from an illusion to a mass of words by forcing her voice and manner. Miss Cornell's tricks and gestures, effective in other roles, show her in this supreme part as not a great tragic actress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 4/15/1948 | See Source »

Words can't express how shocked I was to read "Sex in the Schoolroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 12, 1948 | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

...Marshall Plan-or actively hostile -are card-holding Commies. Some are Communist dupes who find it easier to accept the Kremlin's line: "a plan for the enslavement of the peoples of working Europe by the American imperialists." Others, like British Presslord Beaverbrook's Daily Express, have a different objection. They believe that their countries: 1) can recover through their own efforts from here on; 2) must avoid becoming "dependencies" of the U.S. Said a retailer near London, borrowing a Daily Express theme: "We were wrong in the first place to accept the [$3,750,000,000] loan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLAIN PEOPLE: Europe in the Spring | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

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