Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Describing himself as the candidate "most handicapped" by the bars to pornography, Al Thompson welcomed the opportunity to express what propriety has thus far prevented from appearing on the Union walls...
...Asked the press and radio to express his thanks, "from the depths of my heart," to those who sent him about 50,000 letters and 10,000 telegrams congratulating him on his election...
...Paris last week produced identically worded hopes that the U.S. would not "throw good money after bad" in China. Dr. J. H. van Roijen of The Netherlands delegation to U.N. hoped that no additional efforts would be made to save China. In the next breath, he went on to express the fear that if China went Communist all other Asiatic countries would sooner or later follow suit. "In Indonesia the repercussions would be disastrous," he said...
...Louis Hartz had to say, it was a frustrating experience to hear him get to some crucial syllable and then to lose him in a mass of interruptions by the young liberals, who didn't have any more ideas than I did, but being young liberals, felt inspired to express themselves. So it was a sort of delayed intellectual fulfillment to hear Hartz speak about the elections, along with Louis Bean, on Monday evening. He spoke from the lecture platform of Emerson D, and there was no kibitzing...
...intensity. First his fist presses the table until he almost puts his entire weight on it; later his fingers grasp air with tenseness and tautness--early with violence. These mannerisms aren't superficial. They come out of a terrific absorption in ideas. They come out of an effort to express those ideas clearly, completely, and precisely. And Hartz is so successful in this effort that his audience laughs, not because what he says is funny, but because it is so perfectly right. The laughter comes form aesthetic satisfaction and if you don't believe it, go and find...