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Word: expressivity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dear Bob," the letter began, and went on to express New York Mayor John V. Lindsay's "deep gratitude" toward "one of the city's most venerable, respected, dedicated and effective public servants." The soft soap notwithstanding, Dear Bob was being fired from his powerful job as coordinator of the city's federal-state-city highway projects. Robert Moses, 77, once the master of the New York environment, including parks and beaches, is now left with only the Triborough Bridge, six other bridges and two tunnels to run. In a letter accusing Lindsay of "ripper legislation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 22, 1966 | 7/22/1966 | See Source »

...provocative were the pictures, they were picked up by the London Daily Express, which reprinted them with a new caption: "For Hitler-greetings from the new Nazis." Moscow television also made the most of the Paris Match spread. On a program marking the 25th anniversary of the German invasion of Russia, the pictures were shown after some film clips of De Gaulle's visit. Said the announcer: "As one can see, West Germany today is a gigantic cradle of neo-Nazism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazines: Inventing Neo-Nazism | 7/8/1966 | See Source »

...City's transmitter to its owner, Reginald Calvert, 37, a sometime hairdresser, clarinetist, popcorn manufacturer and promoter, and Calvert was planning to sell the whole station to a syndicate. Smedley had no way of suing, since Radio City was located twelve miles out in international waters for the express purpose of avoiding British jurisdiction. Smedley figured, as he later told police, that "possession is ten-tenths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Of Skulls & Crossbones | 7/1/1966 | See Source »

...Down to Size. Such biographical details, competently researched, make good reading. But Leonard Mosley, a columnist for the London Daily Express, pads his story needlessly. He speculates on whether Hirohito could have prevented Pearl Harbor. Mosley says yes-but that the Emperor's advisers cleverly avoided giving him complete information until it was too late. Chances are, however, that Hirohito could not have prevented the war, since for all practical purposes he was a prisoner of his own warlords...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Happy Monarch | 7/1/1966 | See Source »

...London, however, the Daily Express took exception to Kennedy's suggestion that the white man had done little to help Africa. "Among other things," the paper pointed out, "the British brought peace and justice. They ended the slave trade and tribal wars. They saved the lives of millions who would otherwise have died as a result of famine, neglect or battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americans Abroad: With Bobby in Darkest Africa | 6/17/1966 | See Source »

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