Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is to express my hearty approval of your new feature: Judgments & Prophecies...
Last week courageous Lady MacRobert, the last of the MacRoberts and Britain's most venerated wartime mother, died at 74, leaving behind her, as London's Daily Express wrote, "a legend to linger on as long as British youth takes to the skies...
...Atomic Deposits. For those who want to protect documents and other valuables from atom bombs, the Railway Express Agency has set up a service to seal them in bombproof, ventilated concrete vaults deep inside Iron Mountain, near Hudson, N.Y. Customers pack their possessions in cylindrical metal containers three inches in diameter, one foot long. Rental: $10 the first year, $5 thereafter...
...Manhattan, where Vishinsky will soon take up his cudgel again as chief Soviet delegate to the U.N. At first, Vishinsky claimed that he had no arrival speech prepared. But when newsmen cajoled him, he beamed and shyly drew out a little slip of paper. Sample: "I should like to express my hope that the American press, radio and other organizations will support the efforts of all honest men in their struggle for peace, international security and friendship." Growled the New York Daily News: "When Vishy smiles, watch out . . . A tipoff that [he] will be meaner, more dishonest and fouler-mouthed...
Last week, after a look at advance proofs of the Pogo strip, editors of the strongly anti-McCarthy Providence Journal decided that Cartoonist Kelly had gone too far. Said Managing Editor Michael J. Ogden: "Kelly may be heading into deep waters . . . We still intend to express our views on the editorial page, but we vastly prefer to keep those views on that page . . . We shall drop Pogo on any days when his McCarthy cast appears...