Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...uncongenial atmosphere nor destroy a House's uniqueness. Applicants, still choosing their own roommates, could not be thrust into a situation where they would be absolutely friendless. Individual spirit in a House is not created by students alone. Masters and tutors would still vary widely, each staff trying to express its own views and attitudes in the House program, each approaching the students from a different point of view...
Equally interesting was the British reaction to Dulles' speech. Almost all of the British press attacked it. More serious was the fact that Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden was deeply disturbed by it and prepared to express his disapproval to Dulles when the two meet this week in Bangkok. British disapproval of this speech discloses more plainly than ever before the width and depth of U.S.British differences on East Asia policy...
...uprooted along all of the city's main roads and moved back to make the cluttered highways passable to the expected influx of conference limousines. Eighty thousand flowering shrubs were brought in from the countryside and planted along roads and canals with, as one Siamese paper put it, "express orders to bloom when the visitors arrived." Early in the week Bangkok's fast-cracking Public Works Chief Luang Burakam decided that the main street before the great former royal palace where the conference is to be held needed some fountains. He got off a cable to Germany...
...complaints that it was not fair to require anyone to express his wishes about cremation in advance. Home Affairs Minister Louis J. M. Beel pleaded: "A codicil is a simple note ... 'I want my body to be burned,' date, signature, nothing more . . . One can carry it in his pocket or his wallet, one can put it in his desk. One can entrust it to his relatives or his cremation association . . . What's simpler than making a codicil...
Spare Part. In San Antonio, after his overcoat was stolen, Attorney V. F. Taylor placed an ad in the Express: "The liner to the coat is in my closet. . . and if the party will give me their address, I will send them the liner, as I no longer need it, and it is in perfect condition...