Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Throbs & Ecstasy. Penguins are naturally sociable, and they have many gestures to express their amiability. Some gestures are as casual as hat tipping or perfunctory smiles among humans. Others lead to serious "pair formation." When a male and female are getting better acquainted, they go through a series of intricate ceremonials, each of which has its place in the growth of their relationship. First they bow formally, with outstretched flippers. Later, when they feel more intimate, they shake their heads, make a vibrating sound, or stretch out their necks and squawk. As their fondness ripens, the lovers preen one another...
...Harvard experimenters, reporting their findings in the New England Journal of Medicine, conclude: "We wish to express our appreciation of the good-humored cooperation of the Harvard crews...
Just before midnight, two policemen walked into Teheran's Park Hotel last week looking for Sefton Delmer, crack foreign correspondent for the London Daily Express. They were not sure of his looks, though to other correspondents in Iran Delmer's rotund, 250-lb figure and flamboyant air were as well known as stories about his big expense accounts. When Delmer lumbered in from filing a dispatch on the oil crisis, one policeman asked: "Are you Mr. Sefton?" Snapped Delmer: "No, and if you have any business with me, you'd better make sure...
COPS WAITING FOR ME STOP SEE YOU SOON. The Express broke open its last edition to splash a bannerline across Page One: PERSIA EXPELS DELMER...
Last Word. The explanation did not satisfy the foreign press corps in Teheran. In a body, it assembled at the Foreign Ministry to demand specifics. Lamely, Deputy Premier Hussein Fatimi quoted excerpts from Daily Express editorials (which Delmer did not write), referred vaguely to a supposedly inaccurate Reuters' report, sternly added that Iran has no need to tolerate "insults and lies." New York Timesman Michael Clark, informal spokesman for the group, snapped right back with a lecture on freedom of the press. Said he:"The reflections with which we have just been gratified are more generally heard in police...