Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Asch Express pulled out of Prague's Woodrow Wilson Station at 9:55 one morning last week, Conductor August Beb. his paunch taut but official in his brass-buttoned uniform, walked slowly through the train to see that all was in order. His train was not a big one: a baggage car and three coaches with 100-odd passengers. And there were two baskets of fruit he was supposed to deliver at the Asch station. For a veteran Communist who had spent years studying Marxism, the run was not much to look forward to. Beb often complained to friends...
...Wife Snubbed. When the express stopped at Pilsen, Karel Truksa, a husky railroader, got on. Two years ago he had been stationmaster at Asch, a mile from the German border. The Communists had found two men hiding in his house "without documents," and Truksa spent five months in a concentration camp. Now he had only a small job at the station in Eger (Cheb...
...down in his third-class compartment on the Asch Express. Truksa carefully patted his pocket to make sure his pistol was still there...
Attlee, with a choice of going to the voters before winter (when coal will be scarce) or of waiting until spring (when winter coughs and perhaps Iran, too, may be forgotten), may announce his decision during the Labor Party conference, which opens on Oct. 1. Meantime, the Tory Daily Express, the Communist Daily Worker, the liberal London Star were all claiming inside information that Attlee would call an autumn election...
...News is not the only Los Angeles paper to feel the pinch. Hearst's morning Examiner has fired five news staffers in two weeks for "economy" and is close to being in the red. Hearst's afternoon Herald-Express, is reportedly in the red. Of all Los Angeles papers only Norman Chandler's fat, old morning Times is coining money. But it too has its troubles. It is pumping its profits into the Mirror, which it owns. Despite the Mirror's fast growth, the tabloid is still losing money. It looked as if there might...