Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whole Dominion Government. It was up to him to make the Government's new conscription system work. To do so, he needed a seat in Parliament. Grey North's voters now had a chance, ahead of any other part of Canada, to express their like or dislike of Prime Minister King's conscription policies...
...Britons ventured on "Happy New Year" greetings last week. Their New Year mood, conditioned by Rundstedt's drive and the prolongation of the five-year-old war, was caught by the relentless national jester Nat Gubbins (London Sunday Express): "By looking through the bottom of an upturned glass in a dimout [one can foresee that] the war, of course, will continue almost indefinitely, and as the people get more & more fed up with it the Government will lose its temper and impose stricter measures for keeping noses to the grindstone...
...decided he wanted to manage his own paper. "I spoke to an editor from the largest paper in Colorado," he recalls, "and he told me that three-quarters of the editorials he wrote did not represent his opinion. At that point, I decided that if you have ideas to express, you should have your own organ...
...have hoped there may be established a broad-based Greek Government representative of the Greek nation . . . until a fair and free general election can be held all over the country.. . . We hope that thus the voice of the Greek people shall be fully expressed in a sure way as we express our voice in England and America, by the method of elections based on a secret ballot...
With such a wealth of engaging material; Sing Out, Sweet Land! had a golden opportunity that it largely muffs. For its music fails to vibrate, to express dramatically or even evoke nostalgically the picturesque American life it was part of. Instead of trying to get as close to history as it can in the way of frontier lustiness, sectional color and period sentiment, Sing Out, Sweet Land! burlesques a good deal of the past, and emasculates a good deal more...