Word: expressible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prepared it, died without revealing the place where he had caught the unique specimen. No zoologist has been able to say for certain whether the hare was the mother and the capercailzie the father, or vice versa. One school of scientists have even gone so far as to express doubts that the parents were alive at the time of their union. These unfounded suspicions have, however, been booed by leading Swedish lepo-ornith-ologists...
...people of serious blows ahead, called it "a national disaster." Hundreds of factories closed; many hundreds more were about to shut down for lack of coal or materials. Partial paralysis was creeping over the rail lines. Belatedly, drastic measures were applied. The Government declared a rail freight and express embargo, effective May 10, on all shipments except food, fuel and a few other essentials. Most industries could no longer ship or receive materials. Rail lines were ordered to curtail passenger service by half, effective May 15. Several lines, close to the bottom of their coal piles, took off trains...
...British man-in-the-street was too tired to reply, but into the breach sprang his favorite spokesman, Columnist Nat Gubbins of London's Sunday Express...
...Driberg, cocky Daily Express columnist (pen name: William Hickey) and leftist M.P., was excited too. Buchman, he protested in the House of Commons, was nothing but a "soapy racketeer who never repudiated his admiration for Hitler and Himmler." Before the war his MRA (Moral Re-Armament) had been surrounded by an odor other than that of sanctity. Buchman's preoccupation with "key men" was believed to have made Hitler desirable in his eyes...
...been in the struggle to see things improved, which is what everyone else is trying to do too, isn't it?" His latest play, Red Roses for Me, produced in suburban London in February, is about the Dublin transport strike of 1913. Said the Daily Express: "Glorious...