Word: expressive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harry Atkinson of the National Council of Churches. In the same decade, he said, 12,500 other church buildings will be built at a cost of more than a billion dollars. ¶ Biblical statements about heaven and hell should not be taken too seriously because they may express only "opinions current at the various dates of their utterance," Canon J. S. Bezzant, dean of St. John's College, Cambridge, told the annual Conference of Modern Churchmen at Oxford. "The waking nightmares which produced the hideous pictures of hell . . . can only now be regarded as having issued from diseased minds...
...regret your conduct?" asked the prosecutor. Wintle was incredulous. "Not in the very least!" he snapped. With that, Lieut. Colonel Wintle (ret.) wheeled and marched off to six months in prison at Wormwood Scrubs. Said London's Daily Express admiringly: "You may say or think what you like about Alfred Wintle. But here is an Englishman...
...moment's carelessness. Once, when Don Newcombe crossed up his catcher with a slow curve after taking the signal for a fast ball, Roy promptly flipped off his mask and padded out to the mound. "How come you give me the local when I call for the express?" he demanded in singsong irritation. Campy believes that his chatter helps. Says he: "You shouldn't be a dead pants out there...
...have done for America, St. Louis and the beer industry, I am not so sure that you are entirely correct in saying "When Prohibition was finally repealed . . . Gussie, his father and his older brother picked one of the first cases off the bottling-plant line and sent it air express to President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a heartfelt token of thanks ..."... As I recall it, the first case of beer went to Al Smith when it came off the line, and I am wondering if you do not feel that this would have been a good spot in the article...
...Haven express, 20 minutes late out of New York and bound for Boston, roared into a sharp curve near Bridgeport at high speed and jumped the tracks, killing the engineer and injuring 24 people. Luckily, the conductor had just moved passengers out of the first five coaches, otherwise the toll might have been disastrous. Service on the New Haven's main line was snarled for five days while commuters rode to work by bus or detouring trains running up to an hour late. At week's end Massachusetts State Representative James L. O'Dea Jr. demanded...