Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wish to express my profound admiration for Secretary of the Army Robert Stevens. . . He has returned courtesy for discourtesy. He has given lucid answers to confused questions . . . Above all, he has preserved his good temper while dealing with bad temper...
...Kinsey's approach to the problem." Accurate scientific research into human sexuality is more difficult than among Kinsey's first subjects, the gall wasps, he said, "since sex is some thing that people do only in a bedroom." He criticized Kinsey's attempt to express human sex life in statistics showing the frequency of orgasm. "Is orgasm the goal of life? There is some importance, after all, in reproduction of the species...
Addressed to President Eisenhower, the petition reads simply: "We, the undersigned, wish to express our opposition to United States intervention in Indo-China." The group had considered endorsing several longer and more detailed statements on the Indo-China crisis, issued by national pacifist organizations, but finally settled on the shorter form in the hope of eliciting greater student response...
...TIME in 1945 with wide political and newspaper contacts acquired as secretary of former Governor Saltonstall's press secretary. "She has," says Wylie, "an uncanny ear for quotes, which I envy. She keeps accounts, brews coffee, gets impossible reservations for unexpected delegations, struggles with appointments, pictures and air-express pickups. She doesn't have the fun that we reporters do chasing news. She sits at the desk when we are in an remote corner of Maine or some other place and all the editors in New York are suddenly demanding immediate action of other projects. By quick thinking...
...return? Nehru & Co. expressed great pleasure at the trade pact's preamble, to wit: respect for each other's "territorial integrity" and "noninterference" in each other's domestic affairs. Nehru expected that Red China would thereby relax its border pressure, and Indians happily believe him. "Another step to consolidate our friendship with China," said the Indian Express. "A triumph of diplomacy," glowed the Hindustan Times...