Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reaction next day made it clear that the whole felt hurt. "Butler squeezes the wives," complained the conservative Daily Mail. The Tory Daily Express and Liberal News Chronicle were two minds with but a single pun: "Butler Raids the Kitchen." From miners and railwaymen came demands for higher wages to match higher prices. Said the Conservative Daily Telegraph, usually one of Butler's stoutest supporters: "His strategy is disappointing because he has not made any frontal attack on government expenditures...
...policy of reform in North Africa, and thereby saved a part of France's tattered international reputation. But he had not done it gracefully. He had blinked at insubordination by high military officers, tolerated defiance from his own ministers, allowed appointees to modify his orders and obstruct his express wishes. In so doing, he had jeopardized his own claim to leadership. Yet his very temporizing had forced Frenchmen to accept the difficult fact: France must be generous to North Africa or lose...
...conversation on the Immortals with a respect tempered only gently by the old glint of satiric impertinence. "The time is coming when one will no longer be able to read or write, when a few mandarins will whimper secrets to each other," he told the assembled academicians. "I express the wish that the academy at that time protect the persons suspected of individualism. I would like to think that our doors would open for the singular persecuted by the plural...
...ground floor, the buckety old elevators so useful to a lonely tourist trying to strike up an acquaintanceship with a pretty Iowa schoolmarm. In their place will be $750,000 worth of electronic gadgets, air conditioning, an escalator and labor-saving business machines. Last week, as traditionalists complained, American Express President Ralph T. Reed explained: "Travel has become big business, and we can serve the American public today only by adopting the most modern advances of business technology...
...travel increase has also meant peak profits ($4,685,000 last year) for 105-year-old American Express as well. In the past decade the company expanded more than it did in its previous 95 years-growing from 50 offices to 343 in 36 countries. This year alone, American Express has opened or enlarged twelve branches, from Istanbul to Honolulu to Houston...