Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Opening the Windows. What Mendès proposes to do, said his unofficial spokesman, the weekly Express, is to force "our national economy open to the great wind ... of foreign competition. To open wide the windows, and let those who do not have strong enough lungs to survive come to the state and be cared...
...This is a day of triumph for all the timorous at home and the wicked abroad who want Britain to be small and weak and to count for little," cried Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express. Last week in the House of Commons, Sir Winston Churchill, who in 1942 defiantly declared that he had not become Prime Minister "to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire," sat glum and with bowed head as his government announced that Britain was withdrawing its troops from Egypt...
...remarks were meant, and everywhere taken, as a clear slap at Russia and a friendly hand to the West. Predicted Teheran's influential newspaper Kayhan: "Before long the Iranian government will clarify its policy with respect to the two conflicting power blocs, and will express its preference for the bloc that holds views similar to this country...
...attack. As a result, for a full day newspapers all over the world reported only that a British plane had crashed in the China Sea. AIRLINER, 17 ABOARD, DOWN OFF RED CHINA, headlined the New York Times in a small story on page two. The London Daily Express, whose Hong Kong correspondent saw the plane in the water, reported flatly: "Suggestions that the Skymaster was shot down [are backed up by] no evidence . . . whatsoever...
...started off with $1,000 capital in 1950, is up to $585,000 annual sales selling knockdown Fiberglas sports cars for $1,466.50, without engine. Michigan's Chris-Craft Corp. has 21 different do-it-yourself boat kits ranging from a $49 pram to a 21-ft., $814 express cruiser, now does 25% of its business in the do-it-yourself market...