Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reacting to danger (real or imagined) may express himself in three ways: anger, anxiety or fear. Anger and fear find outlets in fight and flight, but anxiety is a painful in-between that allows neither fight nor flight. The anxious man suffers poor circulation, especially at the extremities ("cold feet"), his muscles are "all tightened up," his breathing is likely to become fast and shallow...
Deadheads. On the other hand, the railroads were not doing so badly on passengers as the figures seemed to show. Of 1948's loss on passenger business, fully two-thirds-$373 million-was incurred by hauling mail, express and baggage cars, rather than passengers. Many railroaders think that baggage cars-holdovers from the days when most travelers carried trunks-should be abolished, and mail pay increased. The railroads got only $26 million last year for carrying 95% of U.S. non-local first-class mail, while the airlines got $46 million for the remaining...
Specifically, the executive must "listen to a lot of claptrap from union stewards who are riding him, and face pressure from government officials. After that, the executive must express benign, gentle, persuasive attitudes...
...express the deep respect of my organization for all the members of your staff who worked on the industrial design cover story [TIME...
When she made her next appearance of the 1948-49 season, in Cinderella, London saw the change. The Daily Express reported as soberly as it could: "At the end of the lovely pas de deux ... so tense was the audience that one could hear the trickle of the tiny stage fountain above the closing notes of the clarinet." Last April, after a gala performance for Queen Elizabeth, the Evening Standard described the new Fonteyn: "Discarding the steely glitter that has sometimes divorced her from our deepest affections, she danced with simplicity, great feeling and unrivaled grace...