Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outer yards, tower men set the switches for the Advance to roll onto the express track. Soon after, the nine-car Exposition Flyer wormed its scheduled way onto the same westward ribbon. The pair of silver streamliners whooshed along the flat Illinois roadbed at 80 m.p.h., three minutes apart...
...Flying offers an outlet for hostility which [some flyers] are afraid to express otherwise. Many fighter pilots . . . not too enthusiastic about aerial combat derive great . . . satisfaction from strafing ... an uninhibited outlet for their hostilities without too great a chance for retribution...
Since the great day when Aesop's tortoise nosed out the over-confident hare, turtle racing had come a long way. Last week a 25-year-old terrapin named Arkansas Express ran away with Loyola University's first turtle derby. He was bought in a fish market a month ago, and trained by pre-med students, who used Pavlov's theory of the conditioned reflex. Main feature: the "gait-straightener"-a practice track with a picture of a heron on one side, a pike on the other (both are natural enemies of the turtle...
...center of a ten-foot circle, he bounded out with a straight gait in 30 seconds flat, as 100 fans cheered. There were no rules governing the race: one contestant dropped dead of an overdose of adrenalin. Arkansas Express will be entered in turtledom's Kentucky Derby, the sixth annual turtle trudge at the University of Detroit this week...
Though the Adams House system has had to be tailored somewhat to wartime conditions, the democratic foundation for a strong house committee has been revived. Where there is no rule against uncontested incumbency, there is no opportunity for a general turnover of membership or for the house members to express an up-to-date opinion of committee members. A house committee tends to lose contact with the house. Not only are office holding opportunities restricted thus, but one or another "elique" in a house can easily manage to make the committee an "oligarchy of power." Frequent elections lessen these possibilities...