Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both U.S. and British official observers think that Churchill is out on a limb with his protege King George. But the Prime Minister refused to budge last week. Said he: "Until the Greek people can express their will in conditions of freedom and tranquility, it is the settled policy of the British Government to support the King of the Hellenes, who is at once our loyal ally and the constitutional head of the Greek state...
Says the Crusade handbook: "Do not argue or criticize-express your opinion. Do not get up petitions-write personal letters. Do not mention the Crusade-it is not necessary to mention The Methodist Church; we are not organizing another 'pressure group' but expressing the convictions of Christian citizens. Above all, do not copy anything from the Crusade literature-do not use the Crusade phrases- avoid trite phrases and Biblical, 'pious,' poetic, figurative and similar expressions. . . . Stick to the simple propositions: we are against isolationism; we favor collaboration; we want a fair, just, righteous and lasting peace...
...Allied air raids, said that fear of German retaliation "hangs like a nightmare over the British masses." The British masses, long accustomed to secret-weapon bogies, smiled tolerantly when London papers put his outcry on Page One. Labor's Daily Herald and Beaver-brook's Sunday Express condescendingly mentioned the report as pure propaganda...
...bitterest days on Guadalcanal a year ago, Marines used to refer to the frequent runs of Jap destroyers carrying men and supplies down the Solomons as the "Bougainville Express." Last week the Express was running again-but it was a U.S. Express and it ran the other way. Toward the end of the week the Japanese began coming out to meet the Express. The results were rough...
...have growen wery of spelynge wordes allwaies in one waye and now affect diversite. The chief vertew of my reform is that it makes the spelynge express the moode of the wryter. For instance, if yew are fealin frenly, ye kin spel frenly-like. Butte if yew wyshe to indicate that, thogh nott of hyghe bloode, yew are compleately atte one with the aristokrasy, yew canne double alle youre consonnantts, prollonge mosstte of yourre vowelles and adde a fynalle 'e' wherevverre itte iss requirred. Thysse gyvves a sennsse of leissuure ande quiette dygnittie...