Word: expressiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gaulle-and promptly released the text of a telegram that he had sent to Salan: "Concerning the annoying and untimely incident caused by the peremptory motion of the Committee of Public Safety of Algiers, I remind you that this committee has no other rights and role than to express, under your control, the opinions of its members...
...downhold drives that are paring extras to the bone. The Denver Post dropped a Sunday pictorial section, got the cooperation of unions in cutting expenses and overtime, is now putting out the paper with 3,000 fewer man-hours per week than before the recession. In San Antonio the Express Publishing Co., owner of the morning Express and afternoon News, combined the two Saturday papers into one fat morning Express-News. Few newspapers are hiring; few are even replacing newsmen who quit. As a result, only 50 of some 600 International News Service newsmen, photographers and technicians dropped after...
Herschell probably won't get to Harvard, but if he does, he won't be prepared for college work. It will take a composition course like Gen Ed Ahf to teach him how to express himself, and three full-year educational gargantuas--in the humanities and the social and natural sciences--to broaden his horizons enough to allow a certain selectivity in later narrowing them...
...South--on into their freshman classes at college--couldn't identify Aaron Burr, Leon Trotsky, Martin Luther, or Aristotle ("one of Christ's disciples," wrote a college freshman). Parents, employers, and college instuctors are discovering that great percentages of youth can't spell properly, read quickly, write legibly, or express themselves comprehensibly...
...huskily, knowing what it means to win the Medal of Honor. "Anyone who has been through the adventure of war with men such as you could find in his heart today many things that he would like to say over and above anything I have so feebly tried to express. I think the best thing I can do, on behalf of the United States, on behalf of the people and of myself personally and officially, is to say thank you -and thank a merciful Providence that you are all here...