Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gave their leader a rousing 63% to 8% cheer. The poll had been taken at the tour's outset, and perhaps subsequent events had changed a few minds: the British press, at least, was developing serious objections. "Not since Marco Polo," observed Lord Beaverbrook's breezy Daily Express, "has there been a more astonishing pilgrimage to China...
...Attlee party's attendant British newsmen cabled their first overall impressions of Red China. Wrote Rene MacColl of the Daily Express: "The most solemn experience I have had was the visit to Peking jail. On the surface, it looked more like a well-run factory than a prison. But when you stopped to watch the prisoners at their work, you realized that they were going about their tasks with a dedicated ferocity of purpose and speed . . . Nearly all of them were under sentence of death, and only by making good on output for two long, sickening years could they...
...their seatbelts; hotels were crammed to the rafters. "Any connoisseur of curled lips," reported a Rome correspondent of Variety, "can add to his collection by simply asking a room clerk if there is a vacancy." Italy had a big influx of quickie "flying tours," with most visitors asking American Express the directions to the fountain into which Gregory feck and Audrey Hepburn threw coins...
London's Daily Express predicted that the highlight of Princess Margaret's 24th-birthday party, an intimate royal affair at Balmoral Castle, would be an announcement of her engagement to the Honorable Colin Christopher Paget Tennant, 27, heir to a barony and a multimillion-dollar chemical fortune. With gossipists all agog, the Express's guess proved a total fizzle. Arriving at Balmoral, young...
...connection between the emotions and cancer. Research teams (in Chicago, in Manhattan and at U.C.L.A.) studied cancer patients to find out what sort of psychological makeup they had before they developed the disease. They soon found that the average victim of breast or prostate cancer was unable to express such basic drives as anger, aggressiveness, or sexual impulses, suffered from an inner turmoil "covered over by a façade of pleasantness...