Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wish to express our thanks to Wendell Furry and to Leon Kaman for the dignity with which they behaved at the recent McCarthy hearings. For anyone willing to listen they reflected in their attitudes, the integrity of Harvard University...
...heads of state have a primary, supraconstitutional duty to express the national character so that foreigners and, even more importantly, the state's own citizens will understand it. Seldom has this function been better performed than in Dwight Eisenhower's second State of the Union message-the first since he developed the new, firm grasp on his formidable job (TIME...
Nixon's simple way to express friendship: shaking hands with close to 100,000 amazed Asians. Aloft between countries, while Pat wrote thank-you notes to the last stop, the Vice President prepared for the next stop with intensive briefings by embassy officials. Since Nixon's return, and partly as a result of his findings, certain viewpoints are gaining headway in Washington. Among them...
...Sizzling & Sensational." One of the Mirror's fiercest battles was against its two afternoon competitors, Hearst's Herald & Express and the ailing Daily News. In editorials and news stories, all three papers constantly fire away (TIME, Nov. 24, 1952 et seq.) at one another. For example, in the middle of the Mirror's liquor-license series, Newsmen discovered that Mirror Movie Columnist Florabel Muir had herself sold a license in just the way Mirror had said was "sizzling and sensational." Columnist Muir promptly resigned (TIME...
...Antonio. Mrs. Myrtle Hance, organizer of the San Antonio Minute Women, prepared a list of 600 library books that she thought should be "branded" as having been written or illustrated by "leftists." But the San Antonio News and the Express denounced her idea, and the library board turned it down. ¶ In Louisville, "the March grand jury recommended establishment of a committee to censor all magazines, comic books and other publications. The Courier-Journal . . . blasted the idea in an editorial asking: 'Who should tell an American what he can read? Congress? The churches? . . . Our own grand jury? None...