Word: expressible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Drowned Hopes. Ireland barely escaped famine. Britain's crops, if not her worst, were the most difficult to harvest within living memory. Prayers for sunshine went unanswered. England's' wheat was a rain-beaten tangle. Under the headline "The Afflictions of Thy People," a London Daily Express bulletin read like a litany of the counties, intoned over drowned hopes: "Norfolk: . . . Corn in stook too wet to be carted. Hopes run low. Devon: Crops ruined; corn sprouting. Somerset: Corn lands waterlogged. . . . Hertfordshire: Fields are as squelching as in winter. . . . Surrey: Position serious. Crops deteriorating daily. . . . Suffolk: No work...
...once a Hearst newspaper was in trouble and no other publisher was pleased. This was no ordinary strike. As Newspaper Guild (C.I.O.) pickets circled the Los Angeles Herald & Express' baroque, block-sized plant for the second week, it shaped up as a test case for the press of the nation...
...cheap way of getting or underscoring an emotional effect, full of Wagner's tritest tricks. At its best, says Rozsa, it can help to "complete a psychological effect." Spellbound and The Lost Weekend, full of mental quirks and jangled nerves, were right up his Tin Pan alley. To express one hero's amnesia and the other's lust for alcohol, Rozsa used an unearthly contralto wail, produced electronically by a radio-like instrument called the theremin (TIME, April 11, 1932). The theremin, almost never used in a Hollywood film score before, now is the industry...
...Tripp of Montgomery, Ala.: "It should be stated that so far as the Southern Baptist Convention is concerned, Dr. Newton did not go to Russia as a representative of the Convention and is not authorized to speak as a representative of the Convention, but . . . has a perfect right to express himself as an individual...
...Some time ago we heard a story to the effect that some Armenians in Turkey were applying to a foreign Consulate to express a desire to emigrate from Turkey. This we looked upon [more] as a rumor than a probability. Nevertheless, we announced that if there were any who wished to go, the Government would accord them every facility. Many weeks went by, but there were no applicants for passports...