Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is to express my surprise at the unexpectedly subdued tone of your latest report on civil rights and Senator Russell. You almost, but never quite stated the South's case. It is simply this: strangers who are both totally ignorant of, and completely unsympathetic toward our society simply must keep their big, wide mouths and their big, fat paws out of our personal problems if we are ever to solve them...
...Express train D-961 slid out of Salzburg at 9:53 p.m. bound for Munich. It was 13 minutes late-not too bad for the holiday season and a Saturday night. But up in the electric locomotive, Engineer Oskar Sauerbrey gave it a lot of thought. He throttled her up. "I think we are going too fast," yelled Fireman Karl Rupp. Engineer Oskar simply opened the throttle some more-to 60 m.p.h. (the permitted limit), to 70, 80, 84. Back in the diner, cups and saucers crashed from cupboards, and in the compartments, people locked arms to keep from smashing...
Some Britons (especially physicians) with U.S. connections are getting "unsolicited gifts" of American vaccine for their children. More U.S. vaccine is being smuggled in, sold on the black market. The Sunday Express asked angrily: "Why did the Ministry refuse to import the Salk vaccine offered by America [4,000,000 cc., offered last winter]? How can they pretend it is unsafe, yet at the same time allow the privileged few to accept presents of the vaccine from American friends...
Most Southern authors have a marked tendency to breathe harder than other writers, especially when they tackle historical fiction. Out of the huffing and puffing come purple imagery, melodrama of incest and murder, sentence structure as involuted as an express highway cloverleaf. The dividend from this school of writing is that the reader achieves a total immersion in the scene; the danger is that he may drown in words. Fortunately, Author Lytle (of Murfreesboro, Tenn.) comes up for air every now and then, and gets on with his story of life in the Cumberlands of Tennessee during the 1870s...
...tried to fight inflation by refusing a wage increase and instead cut steel prices by $1.25 a ton, the cost-of-living index spurted two percentage points during the following three months. After three months U.S. Steel realized "we might as well have tried to stop an express train with a peashooter. So we had to rescind our price action, increase the pay of our workers and try to catch up with the [price] parade we had fallen so far behind." Perversely, the cost of living then declined...