Word: expression
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finds a solution, which had better not be very long. Says one colonel: "If you're 'it' and you've been 'it' for a few days, you'd better watch out." His job may be no more demanding than calling an air express agent at 3 a.m. to trace a high-priority package. But it may also be chasing down a truly dangerous bandit. Example: finding out what happened in the collapse a fortnight ago of a 58-ton silo door at a Titan complex near Denver, which killed five men, indicated that...
These thoughts, with all their eloquence -and all their exaggeration-express the theme of the book, which is mostly a monologue in which one dedicated professional soldier slowly, agonizingly discovers that he can no longer fight his country's colonial wars. Jean de Larsan comes from a family of soldiers. Like many a French officer, he saw war as a duty, a form of chivalry, a mystique in which obedience was the key to honor. Now he finds that he can no longer obey. He had been a genuine hero, one of the few French officers who fought...
...Geneva, while the Baron and his bride were on a two-year post-honeymoon "health tour" of Europe. "My father was injured in a bizarre accident just before his marriage," Doug Dillon explains. "He was at a railroad station in a small resort outside Milwaukee when an express went by the station at full speed. A Saint Bernard had wandered onto the tracks; the train hit him and threw him into the crowd. The dog's body knocked my father against a pillar, breaking his skull. He was unconscious for a week...
...only opened the way for trucks to slip in and skim off the cream of the freight, but that also inspired the steady expansion of federal regulation of railroads. Nowadays, a railroad cannot raise or lower its fares, expand or contract its lines, merge or diversify its business without express approval of the slow-rolling Interstate Commerce Commission. Overworked and understaffed, the ICC itself harbors no illusions about its in adequacy to run the railroads. Complains one ICC commissioner: "When we get exhibits as big as a telephone directory and hear all sides tell their stories for weeks...
...people by the hundreds every night, any customer can get a table now. Luxury hotels such as the Ritz, George V, Crillon and Plaza Athenée have dropped 15% in American bookings, and some of the lesser hotels are off 50% to 60%. The big travel agencies, American Express and Cooks, report car rentals down 10% and conducted tours...