Word: expressiveness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course, even before Pearl Harbor TIME started the world's first plane-delivered magazine (TIME Air Express for Latin America), thereby bringing our troops in the Canal Zone and all over the Caribbean many news-days closer to home. TIME was also the first American magazine to publish in Mexico City (to get the news faster to Mexico and Central America), in Bogotá (to get the news faster to Brazil and Uruguay), and in Buenos Aires (to get the news faster to the Argentine). And a few months ago TIME, with its Scandinavian Edition printed in Stockholm, became...
There the German 170-mm. rifle shoots right across to the beach. (Troops on the beachhead call it the "Anzio Express" because they can hear the scream of its shells passing, hear the report of the gun from the enemy lines, hear the explosion on the shore behind them.) Sometimes the troops see the German guns firing, call on their 105s for counterbattery fire, only to see the U.S. bursts fall far short at maxi mum range. Even 155s sneaked to for ward positions at night have not succeeded in reaching the Germans...
When it was over some critics, as often, felt that Shostakovich was the most impressive of a generation of unimpressive symphonists. His detractors, as often, found him a pretentious musical rhetorician. A statement by Shostakovich declared that the symphony sought to express Soviet Russia's new optimism, and "the spirit of the new Red Army as it takes the offensive after discouraging retreat...
Long Voyage. One day last year Wingate was summoned urgently to London. Stepping off the plane, still in his tropical bush shirt, he hurried to Downing Street, to lunch with Churchill. The Prime Minister then had a Scottish express train stopped, the astonished Mrs. Wingate* bundled off, took husband & wife aboard ship to the Quebec Conference...
...West Coast correspondent for Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express was one of the busiest men in Los Angeles last week. Covering the Mann Act trial of Charles Spencer Chaplin for both British and Australian newspapers, he had to file two separate stories every day. For Britons, to whom British Subject Chaplin is still the lovable, great little cockney comedian, he was carefully sympathetic. But for Australians he could be tougher and more realistic...