Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shift generated more dismay than enthusiasm. Labor jeered; even the sturdiest Tory supporters could manage only faint praise, and more often blurted doubts. The Conservative Daily Telegraph could see no evidence of "either wisdom or necessity." Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express deplored the removal of Butler from the Treasury at a critical time and his replacement by Macmillan-"an untried quantity as economic arbiter." Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail concluded gloomily: "We can only hope that the new team imparts to the government a drive and decision now lacking...
Eden's new team is yet untried, its record still to be written. But last week the Tories got a clear warning. The latest public-opinion polls, by the Daily Express and by George Gallup for the News Chronicle, both show that Labor now leads the Tories in popular favor for the first time since the election...
...many of the shortages of 1955. As part of the effort to solve its awesome shortage of highways, New York state last week opened a new, three-mile bridge across the Hudson River's Tappan Zee, 18 miles north of Manhattan, bringing near to completion the longest single express highway in the world, the 427-mile, $1 billion Buffalo-to-Manhattan thruway. Even the shortage of highways may some day be solved, impossible as that may seem...
While resting down in this beautiful spot, I was able to purchase your Nov. 21 edition, and immediately wanted to express my appreciation of the extremely fair, complimentary article which it carried on the Philadelphia election. It has been a long, eight-year struggle, and it was a great satisfaction to finally crash through. I am most fortunate to succeed an excellent mayor, and to inherit a fine team of administrators. We hope to keep the old city moving forward...
...youthful "Jacobin" candidates against supporters of his longtime friend, Edgar Faure, who is now his dearest enemy. In the interest of "clarity," he expelled seven top opponents, chief among them ex-Premier Rene Mayer, whose scathing attack on Mendes over North Africa brought Mendes' downfall. In L'Express, Mendes laid down the lines of his campaign. The real choice, he proclaimed, "is between action and immobility, between the promoters of action and those guilty of 'immobilism...