Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said the Daily Express, "as though the Brooklyn Dodgers had invaded Lord's," the sanctum of Britain's sacred game of cricket...
...Notably, handsome Lightweight Justo Antonio Suárez, who held rank equivalent to First Secretary of Embassy when he fought Billy Petrolle, the old "Fargo Express," in 1931. First Secretary Suarez lasted nine rounds...
...Sunday Express' Columnist Ephraim Hardcastle, like the Mirror, went after Air Force exaggerations. Hardcastle also charged that General MacArthur's intelligence chief, Major General Charles A. Willoughby, had done even more fantastic work with statistics. "If his communiques are to be believed," wrote Hardcastle, Willoughby's intelligence system "is nothing short of miraculous . . . On Dec. 26 he . . . said the Communists had 444,406 troops actually in Korea, of which 277,173 were Chinese and 167,233 North Koreans. I have never seen a wartime report of enemy strength . . . meticulous to the nearest digit...
...seen to rescue several toads from wells into which they had stumbled; to feed from a bottle the runt pig of a large litter; to rub noses with a calf in a field; to whisper something into the wagging ear of a burro from Texas-imported for his express companionship; to feed countless chickens and ducks; and to ignore only men . . ." Summing up his American experience, Stephens said: "If anyone gets fresh with you in America, particularly taxi drivers, you must say-holding up two fingers-'On your way, horseface...
...would like to express my appreciation for the timely piece in your Dec. 11 issue about the heroic Turks in Korea...