Word: expressive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...letter addressed to Senator Wiley of Wisconsin (who had requested confirmation of the story), and published in the Congressional Record (Feb. 19, 1947); MacArthur said: "... Your recollection of my part in [Mitchell's] trial is entirely correct. It was fully known to him and he never ceased to express his gratitude for my attitude...
There are, however, many high-placed Republicans who have great sympathy for Nixon's dilemma, and last week they tried to express their feelings. On the occasion of Nixon's 43rd birthday, a party in the auditorium of the National Press Club was given by the Chowder and Marching Society, an organization of G.O.P. Congressmen who came to the House at the same time as Nixon. It was a cold and icy night, but this was no ordinary turnout. On hand were nearly all members of the Eisenhower Cabinet, the White House staff, most G.O.P. Congressional leaders. From...
...Australia almost every day, and sometimes three or four times a day, lottery barrels revolve with the roar of express trains. Flagged to a halt, the barrel is opened, and a distinguished guest with a chromium-plated "extractor" begins withdrawing white-numbered marbles that bring small fortunes to the holders of correspondingly numbered tickets. Even the bored lottery clerks buy tickets, as recently happened in Western Australia when Clerk Neil Watts, writing down the numbers as they were drawn, shouted, "Hey, that's me!" discovered that he had won a $6,750 jackpot...
...logical conception of truth," he says, "only one of two contraries can be true, but in the reality of life as one lives it they are inseparable. I have occasionally described my standpoint to my friends as the 'narrow ridge.' I wanted by this to express that I did not rest on the broad upland of a system that includes a series of sure statements about the absolute, but on a narrow, rocky ridge between the gulfs, where there is [only] the certainty of meeting what remains undisclosed...
...American Base? The U.P. proudly reported how one of its men was allowed to walk Grace's poodle between trains in Chicago. The Los Angeles Herald & Express scooped the town by getting a man aboard Grace's train before it arrived; his interview clearly nailed down the fact that she is a blonde cinemactress. Then, respectfully removing its hat from the back of its head, the Herex editorialized: "This country has many allies, bound to us by various ties, but we sometimes wonder about the strength of the bindings. But not so in the forthcoming alliance between...