Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...description is half right-the Daily Express sells for a penny. Otherwise, the Express is curt, concise, sometimes sensational, sometimes angrily opinionated...
...state of Texas." Some big brass-Chief Justice Fred Vinson, Justice-to-be Tom Clark, Attorney General-to-be Howard McGrath -praised long and industriously the long and illustrious career of Texas' Sam Rayburn. Sam himself stood up to speak modestly of his past and express hope that "our ancient institutions of freedom could meet their new challenge...
...reiterate," she concluded, "that I have no anti-Roman Catholic bias. I am firm in my belief that there shall be no pressure brought to bear by any church against the proper operations of the government and that there shall be recognition of the fact that all citizens may express their views freely on questions of public interest...
...puritanism, Szabad Nep also upheld the importance of being pretty. In reply to a woman reader who remarked that she had no time to think about her looks, the fashion editor wrote sternly: "In your opinion, Comrade, it is a waste of time if a woman desires to express by a spotlessly laundered blouse or neatly groomed hair that she lives and works in a healthy and free country . . . You are 35, married, and have a child . . . Did you ever think what it would mean to your husband* if he could see you at home in a clean hostess gown...
...half the new houses constructed were custom-built, and the new owner consequently had a 50-50 chance to express his own ideas about the practical art of housing himself and his family. Today, such speculative merchant-builders as the David D. Bohannon Organization, which is putting up thousands of moderately priced houses around San Francisco, and the traditional but gadgety Gerholz Community Homes in Flint, Mich, account for 80% of production. Biggest of these merchants, Levitt & Sons, has raised a whole town (Levittown, pop. 27,850) of almost identical $7,990 bungalows on the flat potato fields of Long...