Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rich and poor alike, the passengers in Rangoon station were in a festive mood last week as they boarded the crack Prome Express, homeward bound to celebrate waso, a Buddhist holy season. Every seat in the expensive compartments was taken, and the railroad had hitched on extra cattle cars to accommodate hundreds of poorer men and women laden down with baskets of food. At outlying stations, scores of waso pilgrims climbed aboard, further packing the train...
Vain Hope. At 9:44 a.m. all was gay chatter aboard the Rangoon-Prome Express. At 9:45 an earth-shattering explosion, followed in quick succession by two more, picked up long sections of the track and shook the cars in the air like wet laundry. Gunfire poured from the trackside paddyfields and jungle as two cars of the train plowed into the disabled engine ahead. Other cars of the long train overturned in a nightmare of confusion, as tumbled, screaming passengers were impaled on splinters or crushed in the press of twisted steel...
...Conscience of Seattle," is a manager of professional prizefighters who suffers variously, according to his outraged complaint, from ulcers, insomnia, sinusitis, rheumatism and Republicans. Somehow he still manages to practice his furious skill for conning the public into supporting pugilists of wildly assorted talents, e.g., Billy ("The Fargo Express") Petrolic and Harry ("Kid") Matthews. In the current issue of Sport, Deacon Jack Hurley spells out his secrets for survival in a world beset by the dangers of women and other amateurs...
...Japan, where rain is sometimes really radioactive, a new term, "radiation neurosis" (hoshano noirozeh) has been coined to express a state of extreme nervousness which affects many Japanese after U.S., Soviet and British bomb tests. In understandably jittery Hiroshima, welfare agencies publish bulletins after each rain to assure the citizens that it is not dangerous. In Osaka schoolchildren are told to wear plastic raincoats with hoods. One school held drills to teach the children how to hold their umbrellas so that their hands and faces would not get spattered. Policemen in Itami demanded plastic gloves because their service raincoats...
Infinite Variety. The Barrons achieve their effects by designing electronic circuits that they think express certain emotional characteristics when attached to a loudspeaker, and they tend to call the circuits "characters.'' One expresses anger. Another they call Chloe, because it sounds to them like the lost swamp girl. Some express themselves in a kind of melody, or at least in a series of pitch changes. To provide a sound accompaniment to a film scene, the Barrons kept altering circuits until one expressed what they were looking for. Then they combined it with others, recorded the resulting series...