Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...test the visitor's sense of humor. Do daily siestas contribute to Italy's over population? "The question is very pertinent," said Scelba, smiling slightly. "But the siesta is devoted to rest and not to work." The newsmen roared. Then came another: Did Actress Gina Lollobrigida express the official viewpoint in stating that married women have more sex appeal? "The Italian government," said Scelba dryly, "is favorable to marriage...
...Mitchell came out flatly against "right to work" laws, which, he said, "make it impossible for an employer to bargain collectively with a majority of his employees about the security of his union." President Eisenhower said that that was Mitchell's opinion, which he had a right to express. Ike expressed no opinion of his own, except that the proprieties of state v. federal authority in that area present a "dilemma...
Aviation medicine has long felt the need for a new unit to express the force of one G (the acceleration of gravity) acting on a body for one second. At Holloman Air Development Center, New Mexico, where men are exposed to Gs for experimental purposes, the experimenters got in the habit of calling the needed unit a "jerk" or "jolt." A man who had taken four Gs for 20 seconds, for instance, was said to have taken 80 jolts...
...Wheel. In Franklin, Vt., Alfred Bean, 50, left a testimonial luncheon honoring him for getting a National Safety Council Award for 20 years of perfect driving with the Railway Express, walked across the street to the courthouse, where he was found guilty of charges of driving his own car while drunk 20 days before...
...writhe or "rock" or wriggle one's whole body in a number of strange contortions, and to accompany this motion with a relaxation of the facial muscles and a slight quivering of the lips. This, then, is the first problem that confronts the popular song listener: Learn to express your response through all limbs, trunk, as well as digits, and you will soon surmount the first obstacle on the road to full musical appreciation...