Word: expression
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...absolutely without racial bias. The fact is that in those days no one who did not condemn race riots would have come out of his hole to admit it. Indeed, until recently it would have been difficult to find anyone of intelligence, or even coherent of speech, to express any justification for such outrages...
Shades of Wells Fargo and the old Pony Express. In cities throughout Oklahoma last week, a pair of young businessmen, Thomas Murray, 43, and Darrel Hinshaw, 31, were operating their own private postal system in direct competition with Uncle Sam-and making money at it too. No wonder. The U.S. Post Office these days is a monument to inefficiency, and week after week the catalogue of complaints grows fatter. Curious to learn what was in the badly battered package delivered by the postman, a Cleveland physician ripped off the wrapping and released a swarm of furious bees. Intended...
UNICEF's principal role in the current crisis, Mrs. Williams said, has been gathering and shipping food. The freighter Orient Express, hired by UNICEF left Houston for Nigeria last week, loaded with the first large shipment of food for Nigeria-Biafra--5000 tons--she said...
Papousek stopped again. His knowledge of English is good, but he worries about choosing the right words to express his feelings...
Enemy Property. The family involvement ended abruptly in 1928, when John's sons sold their thriving business to Wagons-Lits, the Brussels-based sleeping-car company that ran the Orient Express. After Germany invaded Belgium during World War II, Cook's assets in Britain became enemy property. They were eventually handed over to the four major British railways to manage, and, as a byproduct of the rails' nationalization in 1948, the government took over Thos. Cook...