Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...builders and technicians jammed the city's hotels and spare rooms to the rafters. Across the Savannah River in South Carolina, the aluminum glint of hundreds of trailers winked among the pecan groves. Giant bulldozers ripped through slash pine and red clay, pushing a four-lane, 20-mile express highway from North Augusta to Ellenton (pop. 700), a town soon destined to disappear before the bulldozers' onrush...
...that MacArthur had been "badly supported" in Korea. "In the face of conflicting orders . . . from all points of the compass, what is he to do?" Lord Beaverbrook, once described admiringly by Winston Churchill as a "true, foulweather friend," took even stronger issue with the MacArthur-baiters. Said his Daily Express: "Whatever General MacArthur does is wrong ... If he refuses a truce to the Chinese Reds, that is bad. If he offers a truce, that is equally...
...Herald really doing that? Last week, while staffers were at work on their birthday special, 48-year-old Herald Managing Editor Brian Chapman gave his own answer: he quit. Chapman, a regular Socialist and a good newsman who had come over from Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express, was fed up with the Herald's failure to keep its readers informed on the problems of the day. He had been forced to cut down on the paper's foreign and cultural coverage and its play of international news while devoting up to one-third of its space...
English-speaking Americans, however, were more than borrowers and corrupters. As the nation grew, the language grew too-adding pull up stakes and pony express, wistaria and widow's walk, freshman and flunk, sideburns (the cheek whiskers worn by Union Army General Ambrose Burnside) and bloomers (the billowing trousers worn by Feminist Amelia Bloomer). An erudite U.S. missionary named T. S. Savage first named the gorilla. His source: the Greek translation of the word that Hanno of Carthage used to describe the hostile and hairy creatures he met on his travels...
...turned down, especially when the clause favors a large majority group as against an underprivileged for minority group. First, such a gift can have an effect on the distribution of admission and scholarship awards among ethnic groups. Second, acceptance of such a gift will encourage other donors to express their preferences in restrictive clauses, clauses which limit the University's freedom of action and decrease the effectiveness of gifts. Third, it makes the University more vulnerable to charges of bias, however unfounded they...