Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FOUGHT DESPERATELY AGAINST PARTITION AND FOR A NEUTRAL ZONE IN THE CATHOLIC AREA OF NORTH VIET NAM. ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLE TO SURMOUNT THE HOSTILITY OF OUR ENEMIES AND THE PERFIDY OF FALSE FRIENDS. UNUSUAL PROCEDURES PARALYZED THE ACTION OF OUR DELEGATION . . . ALL ARRANGEMENTS WERE SIGNED IN PRIVACY. WE EXPRESS OUR DEEPEST SORROWS IN THIS TOTAL FAILURE OF OUR MISSION. WE RESPECTFULLY SUBMIT OUR RESIGNATION...
...television's very own extension of the Darwin theory, departed last week on a good-will (i.e., publicity-gathering) round-the-world trip sponsored jointly by NBC and Pan American World Airways. Chimpanzee Muggs and his entourage (two owners, a writer, a cameraman and a man from American Express) are traveling in the front compartments of regularly scheduled passenger planes, will visit Paris, Rome, Cairo, Bangkok, New Delhi, Singapore, Honolulu, Havana. The Muggs staff expects to have no trouble with living accommodations; in some cities leading hotels are already grabbing for the honor of rolling the red carpet...
Atop the front page of his London Daily Express (circ. 4,077,835) Britain's indomitable No. 1 press lord has long emblazoned: CONTROLLING SHAREHOLDER LORD BEAVERBROOK. Last week the Express dropped the Beaver's line and announced that "the newspapers have passed out of his control." The Beaver had turned over his controlling shares to the Beaverbrook Foundation, which has been set up as a "British Empire educational trust." But the formal change did not mean that the Beaver was relinquishing any of the undisputed control he has exercised over the Express and his two other dailies...
...wheeled to classes in an old baby carriage. But Sam, who showed surprising aptitude for drawing, soon told the canon: "I can carve." Paterson wisely refrained from giving the crippled young Negro any formal art training. "What I tried to do," said Paterson, "was let him express what was in his eyes and mind...
...Speed. The retired colonels and genteel ladies who made up most of the audience were not swept off their seats, but the press raved. ". . . Full of music that gets up and goes somewhere . . . melodious, impassioned and expertly orchestrated," wrote Cecil Smith in the Daily Express. And the Times was even more enthusiastic: "Tonight's concert may well prove a landmark in the history of . . . our English music . . . a new force among contemporary composers...