Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aquarius. The Chinese will shoot down another U.S. plane and Senator Knowland will declare war, secede from the Union, and issue currency. Secretary Dulles will coin a phrase, "passive retaliation," and President Eisenhower will express displeasure but will hope, over four networks, that it was just a mistake. Meanwhile, closer to home, Kirkland House will lose all 16 of its maids in a steam tunnel...
...Robert K. Straus, a member of the family that controls R. H. Macy (TIME, Nov. 8). But last week Straus and his group backed out. In Los Angeles, the death of the paper was good news for Chandler's money-losing Mirror and Hearst's ailing Herald & Express. They are left to battle alone in the city's afternoon field...
There was little doubt that Pat McGinnis would receive many complaints; his practices had not lived up to many of his promises during the proxy fight last spring with Boston's Frederic C. ("Buck") Dumaine. McGinnis had promised more express trains, longer loading platforms, bigger parking lots for commuters along the road. So far, the only noticeable improvements were two enlarged parking lots...
...served loyally as Prime Minister no fewer than four times. But he was never overwhelmed, either by the Queen or her supporters, for one simple reason: he believed with all his heart that everything he did-and much of what was done to him-was in obedience to the express commands of the Almighty. If his Liberal Party scored over Disraeli's Tories, Gladstone did not congratulate his supporters. "To God be the praise," he declared. And there was even an occasion on which God's dexterous intervention in a squabble with Turkey enabled Gladstone to leave...
Librettist Joe Darion fairly faithfully followed the saga of archy, described by his creator, the late Columnist Don Marquis, as a sensitive cockroach who had to express himself or die. For archy, writing was even more painful than for most poets: he had to type each letter by diving headfirst from the frame of the machine to the keys (his works were all in lower case because he was unable to land simultaneously on the shift key). His bruised outpourings are mostly about mehitabel, the life-battered but life-loving cat ("toujours gai, toujours gai") who is pretty sure...