Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Opinion Pollster George Gallup released soundings on the two assumptions. From coast to coast, union members and farmers were asked to express presidential preference in a trial heat between Stevenson and Eisenhower. For Democrats the labor response was chilling. Between the 1936 and 1948 elections, less than 30% of union members went Republican. In 1952 Eisenhower got 39%. Last week's survey, apparently reflecting a feeling of rank-and-file wellbeing, gave Ike a clear majority...
...Lady Garbett had no right of further appeal. She may rent her house and land to a tenant if she can find one "acceptable" to the A.E.C. Or she may sell to an A.E.C.-approved farmer. But she may not move back into her own home. Growled the Daily Express: "Maybe Lady Garbett is a deplorable farmer. Maybe the Ministry of Agriculture is fully justified in its contention that her land is neglected. But is not Britain a free country? Is she not the rightful owner of her own farm? It is a scandal and scar on British justice...
...when news of their success drifted back to New Delhi. There, veteran climbers were frankly envious and just a little sad to see another peak conquered. Said Ram Rahul, climbing companion of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Douglas: "The big conquests are all but over. Before we know it. American Express will be running tourists up to the top of every Himalayan peak just to have a look...
...will be committed to the life of a priest. On the same boat, the family slings , a bullock they have sold away to Galway. The loading is botched and so, in emotional terms, is the boy's farewell; the family is torn by an anguish it can only express in hysteria and anger. The boy himself believes that he is being sent to the priesthood to eke out the family income, and his fate, anticlerical O'Flaherty suggests, is little different from that of the dumb ox. In eleven pages the reader gets a minor masterpiece of human...
Fire Escape. In Tokyo, arrested for setting fire to an express train, Takemi Konya explained that he had just flunked his university entrance exams, was merely trying to cheer himself...