Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week he would continue to rest in bed. If the weather permits, he will occasionally be pushed in his hospital bed out on the porches at each end of the hospital's eighth floor. In his conferences with Secretary Dulles and others, he will be "allowed to express his opinions," said Dr. White; letters he signs could well represent his own views. In the event of a real crisis requiring presidential decision, he would be fully able to act in reaching...
...press, the duke's secretary announced less politely: "The Duchess of Windsor wishes it to be known that it was on the unanimous recommendation of the three publishers of her memoirs-namely [New York's] David McKay Co., McCall's Magazine and [London's] Sunday Express-that Mr. Amory's employment was terminated." With Amory's unfinished 300-page manuscript thus brushed aside as "unsatisfactory" hack work, a brand-new ghost was hastily materialized. Starry-eyed with zest for his task, McKay Co.'s Editor Kenneth Rawson exulted: "I have found the duchess...
...member Administrative Board, headed by Dean Leighton, will probably consider the petition at its meeting next Tuesday. It is likely to reserve judgment, however, until the Housemasters express an opinion on the matter some time next month...
...spread of trouble, Washington last week sent one of its best troubleshooters to warn Nasser against the Communists' poisoned apples. Britain sent its top soldier to impose order on its East Mediterranean bastion (see below). Russia, meanwhile, sent a polite note to all three Western powers to express its belief that any nation can buy weapons wherever it pleases. To prove its point, Russia already was busy offering its wares to Syria and Saudi Arabia. In other words, this talk of disarmament and the "spirit of Geneva" was all right in its place and time...
...like any game, has its rationale. Most girls are tremendously relieved and deeply offended when you finally close in. Your girl friend's response, if she still approves of you, will be to express both feelings in a superb six-or-eight-word sentence, and let you go ahead. After all the rationalizations are on the table, the only really pleasant part of the whole business ensues...