Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...main objective of the Bricker proposal is to prevent the exercise of the Executive Agreement without the express consent of Congress. Gordon A. Martin, Jr. '57, vice-president of the HYDC, called it "a dangerous restriction on the President's powers, incompatible with the world situation today" and emphasized the importance of fast action by the President in emergencies...
...special train with the name "E. H. Harriman" painted on the locomotive. E. H. became a director of the road the next year. By the time he died, in 1909, he was the dominant figure in 75,000 miles of railroads worth $5 billion; he controlled Wells-Fargo Express Co.; he was president of 16 corporations and a guiding genius of 27 others...
Progress was creeping up on Long Island's famed old Deepdale Golf Club. The ranch homes of well-heeled suburbia were already encamped on its borders; soon its green and rolling acres would be split by the broad scar of an express highway. It was time to move on. But before their old bar was closed, before the silver trophies were packed for shipment, Deepdale's members decided to hold one more tournament on the trim fairways that have known such diverse golfers as William K. Vanderbilt and Dwight Eisenhower, Bing Crosby and Bobby Jones...
...contrast to his gay, decorative painting, O'Hara's subjects are somber. They express tragedy and pain. The Harlequins, flying kites in Number 13 appear to be receiving stigmata, driven into their bodies by the kite ropes. Other figures are running away, pleading, weeping, or lost in contemplation. When O'Hara succeeds in his composition he intensifies the isolation of his subjects...
...stalked at dawn or dusk; another will hold firmly that they should be hunted in daylight. An experienced moose hunter will argue that a single shot from a comparatively light 30-30 rifle is enough to fell a moose; a second will answer that only a powerful .35 Remington Express with a 200-grain bullet is equal to the task. Is a bear's eyesight bad? Should elk be hunted on horseback? Is a Rocky Mountain goat harder to kill than a grizzly? Fresh experiences refuel the old arguments every fall and keep them raging until the next...