Word: expressiveness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could express surprise over the convention-end revelation that the Truman alternative alone could come near to satisfying ADA. What did crop into the open without warning was the overwhelming general unrest about the Administration drift toward a conservative orientation. Two viewpoints concerning strategy clashed: one holding that explicit platform-wise recognition of Truman's shortness on liberalism would gather votes for Wallace, another insisting that a whitewash inevitably spelled further Presidential slaps to the face of the Left. The issue was fought out in sessions of the political policy drafting committee. Careerist Democrats Paul Porter (ex-OPA chief...
...Marxist" is the word that divides the world. In the lands drained by the Sava, the Bug, the Moskva, the Dnieper, the Don, the Volga, the Yenisei and the Amur, a man who wishes to express approval-of a painting, a factory production record or a military operation-is likely to call it "Marxist." In the lands drained by the St. Lawrence, the Mississippi, the Orinoco, the Amazon, the Tagus, the Thames and the Clyde, a man who wishes to express disapproval-of a painting, a production record or a military operation-is likely to call it "Marxist...
...midnight last week, while cameras snapped and ground, French frontier guards lifted the striped barrier across the Bidassoa River bridge at Hendaye. At 8:20 next morning, the de luxe Pyrenées-Côte d'Argent Express pulled into Hendaye station. And there the glistening blue cars sat for four hours, caught in a snarl of bureaucratic red tape. Paris had forgotten to order the Hendaye station master to let the train through, and he liked to have his orders. Sixty of the passengers, members of Milan's La Scala Opera, volubly wondered if they would...
...great practical problem facing the Committee and the Executive Committee which it elected last night, is to express its views with sufficient vehemence and cogency, and to create enough popular support for them to influence Congress in this year of our election, 1948 A.D. The Republicans have been placed in a difficult position by the Marshall Plan. They have been forced to acknowledge the necessity of a European Recovery Program, but they have been prone to tinker with the Administration's proposals. It would be nicer for their political future, they feel, if they could take credit for the program...
...various extra-curricular organizations and events than has been accomplished in the past. In the second place, the feature will attempt to present the sort of informal, personal view of the various activities that is impossible under the restrictions customary to unsigned news stories. Consequently, 'The Walrus Said' will express the views and impressions of the authors, and will not necessarily represent the opinion of the Crimson...