Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wall. I didn't have time to express an opinion because the boat rammed sharply into the sea wall. The ladders went up and the 20 marines in our boat began scrambling up. The ladders were very shaky. The hooks were not wide enough for the wall. But one by one our men disappeared over the sea wall. It came my turn and I climbed the ladder and hit the top of the wall. I threw one leg over it and rolled. I landed with a thud in the ditch Sam had said would be there...
...what people like to call a 'school.' " They merely meet once a month to argue about music over plates of pasta and bottles of white wine. If they ever agree, it is because "we've gone through the common experiences of our generation and we must express them to people...
...Ford's belief that the industrial revolution had broken the back of the traditional England and that World War I had given the coup de grâce. In the struggles and frustrations of one Christopher Tietjens (a name almost as un-English as Hueffer), Ford tried to express the gradual destruction of a way of life for which (as Ford Student Robie Macauley puts it) "the world is an equable and logical mechanism in which God, Man, and Nature have a balanced relationship...
Mayor Crane did not want to express a personal opinion on the order, but admitted that "as I said last spring, the gathering of the names of Communists is essentially FBI business and does not fall under the jurisdiction of the Cambridge City Council...
...example, in Paris, Le Figaro's foreign editor said; "I read TIME cover to cover. I cannot read all the publications dealing with science and the arts. TIME does this for me . . ." From London, we learned that TIME is practically required reading on the Daily Express. From Bombay, we were told TIME stories appeared frequently in the daily press and TIME clippings were considered an important part of every newspaper morgue. In Western Germany, TIME was read on most of the leading newspapers. A Hamburg editor explained: "The name TIME lends authority to the story...