Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last Train, Last Battle. The Japs, landing troops to reinforce Munda, were caught flatfooted. At 1:55 a.m., July 7, the battle was joined with the "Tokyo Express...
...death are taming and weeding out the O'Neills; 2) Danny is growing away from his feckless family, and Novelist Farrell is busy recording the long, long thoughts of a sensitive boy in Chicago's frustrating South Side. In this book Danny works for the Continental Express Co., takes a prelaw course at night. Later, he attends the University of Chicago by day, tends a gas station by night. He reads a lot, is shy with "good" girls, gets no where with the other kind. He loses his faith in God, his virginity, the grandmother who has raised...
...divisions in northern Italy busy digging defenses across the top of the boot. Another seven in the south, under Rommel-hating Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, soon may be joining Rommel. An indication that Nazi strength in upper Italy may have been exaggerated came from a London Daily Express correspondent. He slipped into Italy from Switzerland, found "a trifling German army" in the region of Milan. One possibility: Rommel has his troops well dug into the border mountains, is policing the cities with a skeleton force...
...means all Friends agreed. Some Quakers felt an urgent need to dwell deep upon the teachings of George Fox and other weighty Friends. Some feared that the more Quakers became a force in the world the less they would exert that power which few Quakers would care to express in words, but of which Robert Barclay once wrote: "When I came into the silent assemblies of God's people, I felt a secret power among them which touched my heart; and as I gave way unto it, I found the evil weakening in me, and the good raised...
...even these devices failed. Last fortnight, the Dai Nippon Press Association warned that "all antinational movements will be crushed." As long ago as last summer Tojo instructed the prefectural governors: "People should not express anxiety and dissatisfaction. . . ." On orders from Tojo, the Government banned all meetings except those it sponsored. The Minister of Agriculture decreed: "Dissatisfaction in the villages must be wiped out. ..." And the Tokyo radio, chiding those who grumbled about food hardships, declared...