Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lettuce and a shilling for fist-sized cauliflower. They muddied their boots and sprained their elderly tweed skirts poking around in wartime garden plots while they dreamed of home-grown peas and tomatoes, talked about with such annoyingly leisured learnedness in Mr. Middleton's column in the Daily Express. Still, it was pleasant to read about-more pleasant than to chat obliquely about the strange restlessness that spring seemed to have released throughout the nation...
Much of the dispute over the Defense Information Bureau will come to a head tonight when the Crimson Network conducts an open "vox pop" giving an opportunity to those, both satisfied and disatisfied, to express themselves...
General Hsiung's prospective hosts in Washington said that he would be welcomed to the innermost Allied war councils-when they concern China. As China's ranking military spokesman in Washington, he will have "full opportunity" to express his views. He will advise the War Department in all Chinese military affairs. But in Washington, apparently, the Chinese will still have the status of guests at the Allied table, not equal members of the Allied command...
Said John Lewis, from under his sardonic eyebrows: "Recently I wrote a letter to somebody urging labor peace. If we don't have labor peace now, I can only express surprise...
...gave up writing," says Garvin, "I suppose I should die." He has signed a fat contract to write a weekly piece for Beaverbrook's Sunday Express-"but without the Asterisks" (a Garvinesque pun). Meanwhile, although the Observer was mum on the subject, the possible new editor of the Observer was Arthur Mann, BBC governor and ex-editor of the Yorkshire Post, which first cracked open the Wally Simpson scandal in Britain...