Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Western visitor finds relief in leaving Belgrade. The Ori ent Express, which had come from Stamboul and Sofia, crawled across the snowy Voivodina plain. In my first-class wagon-lit compartment, the washbasin was dirty. There was neither soap nor towel. The bed pillows were grubby. The Serbian Pullman attendant grabbed my passport and exit permit and as good as told me that was all he had to do - from there on it was a mat ter of indifference to him whether I starved, sang or jumped out of the window. In fact, I munched salami between gross layers...
...manifesto was obviously intended to catch the middle-class voters, who probably will decide the election. The Tory press, however, was not soothed by Labor restraint. "LAND TAKE-OVER FEARED" was the Daily Express' interpretation of a Labor proposal for government cultivation of unused private land. To Lord Rother-mere's Daily Mail, the Labor Party manifesto was "a blank check on nationalization"; to his Evening News, it was a "pink overall," a "pink pig in a poke" or "a great red wolf...
From the chambers of Superior Court Judge Paul Nourse, a Los Angeles Herald & Express reporter telephoned urgently for help last week. "Aggie," he pleaded with City Editor Agness Underwood, "we're in a fix. Judge Nourse has announced that there'll be no pictures taken in court . . . What are our orders: to shoot or not to shoot?" Snapped Aggie: "My instinct is to shoot." Managing Editor Jack Campbell agreed, so long as the pictures were taken when court was not in session. So Aggie rushed down to the courtroom a rugged reinforcement: veteran Hearstling Photographer Perry Fowler...
...Siberia and in the arctic wastes of the Soviet Union, millions of song-loving Russians are working in forced labor camps. With words and music, they too describe their bitter life and express their longing for home. In the current issue of the Russian-language Paris magazine Narodnaya Pravda, many of their songs are set down by an exile who calls himself S. Yurasov...
Snowy-haired Botz (of Memphis, Tenn.) Ed Crump was indignant at the Los Angeles Herald & Express. The newspaper had reported that Vacationist Crump tried to crash the press box at Pasadena's rose parade and was tossed out by police when he couldn't produce credentials. "Biggest lie ever told," fumed Crump. "Why, I still got my tickets here to prove I was a guest [in the reviewing stand], I don't as a rule have much trouble with newspaper reporters...