Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like Balaam, the leader hadn't started out that way. A fortnight ago, Rival Editor Cummings had given the Beaverbrook press a resounding thwack. "The Daily Express," he wrote in his News Chronicle column, "seems to have the British Empire on the brain ... It opposes Marshall aid and Western Union as policies inimical to the Empire [and] keeps up its dreary drip of criticism unfortified by any rational alternatives...
...week the Ford Motor Co. added its new St. Louis plant to the river's customers, began shipping new cars to New Orleans and Houston by barge. The first load of 1,200 Fords and Mercurys was picked up at St. Louis by the Commercial Clipper and Commercial Express, two of the latest additions to the Mississippi's growing fleet. Just completed by the St. Louis Shipbuilding & Steel Co. for $500,-ooo each, for the Commercial Barge Lines, these two diesel-powered, screw-driven tows typify the modern fleet that has replaced the oldtime packets...
...Americans carried small or side arms with the express authority of the Mexican Area Commander, for protective use in a wilderness area...
...express a desire to be informed of other facts which create dissatisfaction in the U.S.S.R . . . Leading comrades in Yugoslavia are saying things like "The [Soviet] All-Union Communist Party (of Bolsheviks) is degenerate," and "the Cominform is a means of controlling other parties by the All-Union Communist Party (of Bolsheviks)." These anti-Soviet phrases are usually covered up by leftist phrases such as "Socialism in the Soviet Union has ceased to be revolutionary" . . . It would be pertinent to mention that Trotsky . . . also started accusing the [Soviet] Communist Party of being degenerate . .. behind the leftist phrase of world revolution. However...
Roll Back the Sea is a hard-working attempt to make fiction of their achievement. Its author, A. Den Doolaard (real name, Cornelus Spoelstra) is a 47-year-old Dutch journalist, author of Express to the East (TIME, Nov. 18, 1935), who "meddled in underground work," escaped to England and became chief of the Dutch government's broadcasts. After the liberation of Holland he was posted on Walcheren as liaison officer between the Dutch department of dike repairs and the Royal Engineers...