Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moscow leveled big verbal guns at Que bec, let go a warning salvo: Aug. 12- "The Soviet Government did not receive an invitation to be present at the [Quebec] meeting." Aug. 20 - The Quebec conference is "serving the interests of the Anglo-American forces," but does not "express the opinion of the entire Anglo-Soviet-American coalition...
...Pickup and delivery service of mail and express by planes that swoop low over rural airports would be extended some 55,000 miles...
...outbreak began one February. Suddenly everybody started laughing. Grinning millions walked out on their jobs. At Pennsylvania Station a train announcer bawled: "Express leaving for Mayaguana, Mozambique, Ambrizette, Mossamedes, and Sebastian Viscaine Bay." Men left their wives in droves. Narcissism, nymphomania, necking became general...
...Approach the object with all the pent up sneer you can muster. (This last direction is straight from Frend.) Then, with rapidly successive strokes, pluck each shiny tube from its smug receptacle, clutch gleefully in both hands, and with a heinous whoop," or whatever other sound may best express your innermost emotions, smash one at a time against the book-piled desk at which you've sat so many hot nights. After this act of delicious reprisal, grab the nearest blunt weapon, and bludgeon to permanent silence the obstinate object of your electronic muddle...
Comebacks. Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express immediately took up the challenge and began knocking down Cummings' story with testimonial letters from the places involved. Wrote Mayor Godsell of Worcester: "The behavior of the American troops is excellent. ... It is disgrace ful that such a statement should be made. . . . Misconduct in Worcester is negligible." Mayor Farrow, of Peterborough: "I am infuriated by this scurrilous statement. . . . The police have practically no trouble...