Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lorenz remembers standing for six hours on a packed express train that runs between Belgrade and Athens. "We played gin rummy," he said. "One guy was the table--his right hand for the discard pile and his left for drawing...
Whipple and Hynek express complete satisfaction with their observation system to date. Moonwatch teams were at an initial disadvantage in that they were located in positions from which the projected American satellite would be visible early in its life, but which were out of the range of visibility for the Russian satellite for about a week after its launching...
...into the final quarter before Oklahoma managed to salvage a 4 5-game unbeaten string, 14-13. Fist fights flared, and smooth football seemed a forgotten art until Notre Dame completed a soaring 74-yd. touchdown pass to trip Pitt, 13-7. Ohio State's Rose Bowl express just managed to stay on schedule when the Buckeyes booted a third-period field goal to stop Wisconsin, 16-13. Army's Dave Bourland waited until the final minutes before he found the range and fired two passes that topped Virginia...
...immediate predecessor, the celebrated Ellery Sedgwick. Weeks's Atlantic has had to endure the penalties of lasting into a time when new forms of journalism and communication offer new competition to the printed word as well as many other ways for writers and thinkers to express themselves. But the privately owned monthly (major shareholder: Mrs. Marion D. Strachan of Groton, Mass.) has prospered, increased advertising revenue 100% and doubled circulation (to 241,520) under Weeks and his editorial staff of 8. And its 268-page, 100th anniversary edition, typographically redesigned and filled with original contributions by some...
...France and the French army as its three-year-old war of "pacification" in Algeria gradually becomes a degrading massacre of the innocents on both sides. The man who hurls this "J'accuse," Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, 33, is the brilliant editor of the liberal weekly L'Express and an ex-braintruster of the Mendes-France regime. To a six-month volunteer stint in 1956 as an active reserve officer in Algeria, he brought a young man's sharp nose for injustice and strong palate for raw truths. By his evidence, the Algerian fiasco seems to have...