Word: expressivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could be heard, he added, "because, my friends, I assure you that these are people who couldn't care less about the good of our party." The crowd roared anew. Ike later explained that he had penciled the remark into his speech almost as an afterthought to express his "resentment" at journalists who "write think pieces and ascribe motives to others when they don't know what they are talking about." Ike was irritated weeks ago by a New York Herald Tribune column by Roscoe Drummond, who interpreted a Trib-solicited Eisenhower statement as meaning that the former...
Noisy Protest. London's Daily Express claimed that Operation Sandpaper had been masterminded by "a retired army officer, now a Midlands businessman," and said the team that had tied up Dagenham's betting windows numbered 170 men. The coup had taken three months to prepare, and the bankroll was ?6,000 ($16,800)-"?4,000 for betting, ?2,000 for expenses...
Christian should express disgust, replied, "A Christian should express disgust at anything indecent, but short of that, the less disapproval the better...
...original prospectus for TIME, written more than 40 years ago, took pains to express "a respect for the old, particularly in manners," and an "interest in the new, particularly in ideas." In an era when the pace of change puts almost overwhelming emphasis on the new, the old may often seem old hat. But not a week's news goes by without offering-when studied in some depth-a few striking examples of how much the very old affects what is quite...
Bramhall has a slightly harder job, for through his grimaces he must seem thoroughly human. He makes good use of his face, knows how to express an emotion more forcibly by delaying his reaction to something, or by making only a slight movement. Only at the end of the play do his twisted expressions begin to seem overdone, and his poses held overlong...