Word: expressive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should express our considered view that, because the loyalty or security risk status of a scientist or any other intellectual may be brought into question, scientists and intellectuals are ill-advised to assert that a reasonable and sane inquiry constitutes an attack upon scientists and intellectuals generally. This board would deplore deeply any notion that scientists are under attack in this country and that prudent study of any individual's conduct and character within the necessary demands of the national security could be either in fact or in appearance a reflection of anti-intellectualism...
...years of guiding good boxers, light-fisted clowns and human cauliflowers through the sweaty jungles of prizefighting, he has learned to use the language as effectively as a Sixth Avenue pitchman. Out of his rowdy-ringside wisdom he has fashioned some fine tigers, e.g., Lightweight Billy ("The Fargo Express") Petrolle. Sometimes he has taken a tame tabby, such as Heavyweight Harry ("Kid") Matthews, and conned the public into believing he was a killer. With either breed of cat, Hurley has promoted many a rapid dollar...
...mercifully described as inadequate." But gradually he learned. "There's an awful lot of bunk written about acting," he says. "But it isn't easy. You can't just make faces. If you make yourself feel the way the character would feel, your face will express the right things-if you're an actor. There are lots of things. How you walk. Try walking up to a door and opening it some time on a stage. It isn't as simple as you think. You mustn't stand close to anyone on the stage...
...Dancer was bumped badly on the first turn. The post-mortems suggest that he did not get the best ride from Jockey Eric Guerin. The Dancer made a tremendous, express-train move, and pulled inside to the rail behind the front-running Dark Star. He was boxed in by a horse to his right and so Guerin had to pull up, swing him out and demand a big rush all over again. Once more, the Dancer surged in, pounded by Guerin all the way down the stretch, and almost caught Dark Star. He lost by a head. "In that last...
When General Charles George Gordon was speared to death at Khartoum in 1885, Queen Victoria "had difficulty in speaking." "How shall I ... express what I feel? . . . grief inexpressible!" she wrote the hero's sister. "Indeed, it has made me ill! My heart bleeds. . ." At the time-and for decades afterwards-Poet Arthur Rimbaud's brusquer comment, "Gordon est un idiot," represented the opinion of none but Poet Arthur Rimbaud...