Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME used the Communist wiggle-word "liquidate" to express how euphemistic Communists are about some things...
This intensive cultivation makes it impossible to skim a "national" daily* like the Express or Daily Mail as you might glance through a big U.S. paper. There are too many items on a page, and a headline is craftily written less to tell the news than to lure the reader into the story. Having learned to condense, the press never intends to go back to "big" papers if it can help it. ("Big" was 24 pages; since British papers never depended on vast areas of display ads, they never had papers that Americans would call...
...news rarely makes the front pages-unless it is such musicomedy stuff as the "Hollywood hearings." In general, the U.S. is covered by such grab-bag gossips as Don Iddon (in the Mail) and C. V. R. Thompson (in the Express). Without such serious correspondents as Sir Willmott Lewis of the Times and Alistair Cooke, the Manchester Guardian's man at U.N., and the shrewd jotters of the "American Survey" in Geoffrey Crowther's Economist, an American in London would feel hopelessly cut off from home...
...Joan with a Hockey Stick," hee-hawed London's Daily Express. But the Manchester Guardian disagreed: "She plays the part without deforming it, with a candid, almost childlike delicacy. . . ." And the News Chronicle admired her "exquisitely spiritual rightness...
This faith Rebecca West tries to express with a tonality equal to its meaning. Thus, in a prosy age, her style strives continually toward a condition of poetry, and comes to rest in a rhetoric that, at its best, is one of the most personal and eloquent idioms of our time...