Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would like to take serious objection and express my deep disgust with the cover . . . To portray China and her many people as a swarm of insects represents to me a new low in journalism...
...silent yards from St. Louis to Washington, thousands of freight cars stood on the sidings, many of them loaded with high-priority defense materials. An avalanche of Christmas packages clogged the post offices and a partial embargo was slapped on mail. The Railway Express Agency suspended service in 15 states; steel and auto companies began banking their furnaces, shutting down production lines...
...were for twelve movie-theater ushers and three restaurant waitresses. "There are no conditions attached to the offer and we shall accept no compensation," explained the post's spokesman, Harold Berman. "Our sole reward will be the knowledge that we have been able, in a small way, to express our gratitude for the splendid relationship that exists between the Jewish members of our community and our Christian neighbors...
...Brussels, free-spending Briton George Dawson, who was wanted by U.S. authorities in Germany on charges of shady dealings in war surplus, slugged it out with London Daily Express Reporter Bernard West when he tried to interview him. Later, Express officials ordered West to drop assault charges against Dawson, explained coolly: "Express staff reporters do not fight with hoodlums...
...puppy. Last week, from Gibraltar to Korea, British soldiers & sailors were also hearing the sounds of home. A BBC overseas program called You Asked for It carried such nostalgic sounds as the chime of Southampton's Civic Center clock striking 8, the rumble of the Welsh express going through the Severn tunnel, the Dunstable Salvation Army band blowing itself "pink in the face beside the traffic lights on a Saturday evening...