Word: expressiveness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forgotten that he was also expected to express "optimism." The curtain was once more lowered and raised. This time Churchill, Hitler and the U.S. capitalist were inside the cage, and the workers wheeled it out. "That," intoned Kio grimly, "is the way it will be when the people's patience bursts-and forever...
...staffers of Hearst's Los Angeles Evening Herald & Express wanted to give their boss a birthday present, perhaps a plaid shirt like the gaudy ones he usually wears. Managing Editor John Bayard Taylor Campbell, whose loud & lusty journalism had given the paper (circ. 410,470) its bumptious slogan-"The biggest daily west of Chicago"*-last week was celebrating his 69th birthday and his 50th year in the newspaper business. But when the party-loving reporters got started on the celebration, there was no stopping...
Essential Sequel. But there was no doubt about the State Department's real feelings in the matter. To express them to the nation, Acheson had already called on Chief of Staff Omar Bradley. Speaking before the Jewish War Veterans in Manhattan, Infantryman Bradley made the point with soldierly precision: "Although the North Atlantic pact is an agreement on policy for our common defense, it is evident that policy without power is like law without enforcement ... A military assistance program is obviously an essential sequel to the pact...
...What we are about to do here," said Harry Truman, "is a neighborly act. We are like a group of householders, living in the same locality, who decide to express their community of interests by entering into a formal association for their mutual self-protection...
Woof. A.B.S. promptly accepted the challenge; it opened its own London office and this week appointed its own surveyors in ten British and Irish ports. The London Daily Express, watchdog of the empire, let out an angry woof: "Ai at Lloyd's [Register] is under fire from the U.S. The men who run America's ships want to ... replace it with an O.K. of their...