Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Applauded a speech delivered by Tokutaro Kitamura, leader of a visiting delegation from the Japanese Diet. Said Kitamura: "I should like to express our deepest regret for the tragic trouble we have caused to the people of the United States, the peoples of the European nations, the people of China, and also the people of the Australian nation...
...lined with tall, many-knobbed cabinets full of electronic apparatus. To simulate a missile, either actual or still-to-be-built, the knobs are set at positions corresponding to all of its characteristics. Some knobs take care of its air drag and the thrust of its rocket motor. Others express the action of its gyroscopic controls. Others account for the motion of its launching site (such as a naval vessel) and of its target (such as an enemy airplane...
Down with the Jury! The common practice in dealing with a jury in disagreement, writes Author Bernard O'Donnell, Fleet Street crime reporter, was to load its members into a cart and haul them around the city "so that a jeering populace could express their contempt for men so heedless of their duties as citizens." All in all, readers who still think that King John's Magna Carta brought a fairly modern sense of justice into British courts will have their eyes opened by Author O'Donnell's blood-curdling history of Old Bailey...
Progress. In Washington, D.C., the monthly Postal Record of the National Association of Letter Carriers noted that although it took the fastest pony express something more than nine hours to deliver a letter from St. Joseph, Mo. to Kansas City, "the modern, streamlined postal service" does the job in two or three days...
...Here is an artist who, hailing from the most amiably rowdy and self-confident community the world has ever known, has elected to express the timidity that can never be wholly driven out of the boast-fullest heart. To a people whose ideal of manhood is husky, full-blooded and self-reliant, he has chosen to suggest that, under the ... crashing self-assertion, man is still only a child, frightened and whimpering in the dark...