Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reader, express my complete contempt for the entire article...
...write, no tongue can tell, no vocabulary of language is large enough to express the many benefits that will come to the American coal miner and his family through the establishment of the Welfare and Retirement Fund...
Slow and unprepossessing as it was, the Colomb-Béchar-Ain-Sefra Express was a valiant symbol of what Frenchmen like to call "the French presence" in Algeria. Conceived by Napoleon III and completed under the supervision of Marshal Louis Lyautey, greatest of France's North African proconsuls, the Colomb-Béchar-Ain-Sefra line is the southernmost portion of a railroad that runs all the way from the Mediterranean port of Oran to the rim of the Sahara...
...rebel force harrying the Colomb-Béchar Express is only one of a number of Algerian guerrilla bands which have long operated in and out of neighboring Morocco and Tunisia. Last week on Algeria's eastern border, a patrol of the French Army's 26th Motorized Infantry Regiment, ambushed by a small band of Algerian guerrillas, chased its attackers 300 yards inside Tunisia. When Tunisian troops tried to intervene, the French killed six Tunisians as well as six Algerians. In response to an indignant protest from the Tunisian government, French Commander in Chief in Algeria, General Raoul...
Looking for a firm that could best "express the newest in materials and design," Connecticut General executives fanned out over the country, picked S.O.M.'s Gordon Bunshaft and William S. Brown, the team that had designed Manhattan's medal-winning Lever House (TIME, April 28, 1952) and Manufacturers Trust Co.'s Fifth Avenue branch (TIME,' Aug. 31, 1953). In crewcut, hard-driving Gordon Bunshaft, 48, the insurance company rapidly discovered it was dealing with a stubborn, topflight designer, with a no-nonsense approach. Architect Bunshaft, who keeps one eye cocked on Corbusier's concern with...