Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Episcopal Church, whose members merely honor him as head of "our mother church, the historic Catholic and Apostolic Church of England." Canterbury's letter was doubly presumptuous, Manning declared, since the Episcopal Church's own head, Presiding Bishop Tucker, "has not felt it right to express himself publicly on this controversial question...
...when it proudly announced the Airacuda, a freakish-looking, poor-flying bomber-fighter which got a burst of publicity but little else. Then came Bell's first success: the Airacobra, a flashy, 400-m.p.h., single-place fighter which has a cannon in its nose and climbs like an express elevator...
Morale. "Something strange is happening to German morale," Correspondent Alan Moorehead cabled from North Africa to the London Daily Express. "I refrained for a fortnight from writing this story because it is dangerous to suggest that Nazi morale is breaking unless there is overwhelming evidence. . . . It is a poor type of man we are capturing. Many have been wounded in Russia and then rushed haphazardly over to Tunisia to be formed into new units on the spot and sent straight into battle...
Last summer Britain squirmed uneasily through the agitation for a second front. Now the Times renewed the cry. So did Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express. Said the Times: "If the moment cannot be seized before the impetus of the Russian advance is exhausted, the enemy may gain breathing space for recuperation. . . ." Said the Express: "The resources of Britain and America must make ready to take over the burden. They must lose not a day, not an hour...
...Senate had not been certain until Tennessee's Senator Kenneth McKellar announced his opposition, at the behest of Tennessee's aging Democratic Boss Edward H. Crump. What Ed Crump's reasons were remained obscure, but in whatever political revenge he achieved he had helped others express resentment at cynical politics...