Word: expressible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Daily Express' irrepressible "Beachcomber" did what he could to explain the government's new multicolored gasoline program. "Considerable confusion," he wrote, "is being caused by the new green petrol which changes to yellow when mixed with the blue dual-purpose petrol. It is difficult to analyze the mixture on the spot and the position is complicated by the similarity between this petrol in its yellow stage and the red petrol which becomes yellow when mixed with the new grey petrol which must be mixed with brown petrol for pleasure trips of more than one-seventh of a mile...
...this means that Harvard and Radcliffe will find themselves taking exams together before long, despite the fact that the girls oppose the move almost unanimously and the men have never been given a chance to express themselves on the subject. It is unlikely that a Student Council poll would show a very strong opinion one way or the other--the average Harvard man would not be too upset by the mere presence of Radcliffe students rustling among the bluebooks...
...hand-picked Patton because "for certain types of action [he] was the outstanding soldier our country has produced ..." Patton knew that Ike had saved his hide more than once, wrote to him after the famous soldier-slapping incident: "I am at a loss to find words with which to express my chagrin and grief at having given you, a man to whom I owe everything and for whom I would gladly lay down my life, cause to be displeased with...
Basic training, O.C.S., Fort Gelvore, all denoted portions of McCabe's military life. In July, 1944, he was shipped to the ETO where he worked on the Red Ball Express and in an engineering combat battalion with the Ninth Army. V-E day found him on the west bank of the Elbe...
...Angeles papers, with a two-hour time differential in their favor, can rush eastern returns into print before the polls on the Coast close. The temptation for pro-Dewey papers to stampede some voters aboard the bandwagon was irresistible. Cried a headline in Hearst's afternoon Herald & Express: DEWEY VICTORY SEEN AS VOTE LEAD GROWS. The fact: some small New England towns had gone for Dewey. A later headline: DEWEY SWEEPING THE COUNTRY. The tabloid Mirror was equally sly with EARLY TREND GIVES DEWEY LEAD. It was based on the vote of Hart's Location, N.H., which gave...