Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most horrible thing I have yet read in TIME appears in the issue of July 27. William Ralph Inge, 93, the "Gloomy Dean" of London's St. Paul's, is quoted as telling London's Daily Express that he does not know there is a life beyond the grave-"in the sense in which the Church teaches it"-and has no vision of a "welcoming...
...Arthur Vanden-berg's leadership in the Republicans' postwar policy in foreign affairs, Van's so-called "unpartisanship." But Taft had misgivings, which Vandenberg also began to entertain before the end of his career. When the Michigan Senator died of cancer in 1951, Taft began to express himself with vigor on foreign affairs, attacking what he saw as defects and ambiguities in the NATO pact, challenging both the President's right and wisdom in committing large numbers of U.S. troops to Europe, fixing the blame for the Korean attack on the Administration's weak...
Fifteen years ago, Lord Beaverbrook's powerful Daily Express (circ. 4,000,000) tried hard to convince the world that Hitler was not dangerous. Last week Beaver-brook's Express set the tone for wanting to do business with the Communists, in words that Nye Bevan could not top: "In Britain," said the Express, "the people want world peace . . . The conviction prevails that the world is ready for peace and that governments, whatever their character, must yield to the popular will on this issue . . . Statesmen must obey their master, the public, when the master has made...
...open roads of the U.S., trucks have long been such an extra traffic hazard that it has even been suggested that the trucking industry raise funds for an entire new system of roads for itself. In Boston, for example, the truck-snarled traffic is so bad that a new express road is referred to laughingly as "a new, fast link between two bottlenecks...
...speaker himself) to give a fairly balanced account . . .?" Hartnett was considering a drastic remedy: "I for one am strongly tempted to omit public criticism of Mr. McCarthy in the future, because I do not want to continue to distract reporters or editors from opinions I wish to express on other subjects ... If the Senator is guilty of publicity-seeking, as the Times very likely thinks he is, he seems [to get] gratuitous cooperation from anti-McCarthy publications, including, I fear, the Times...