Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also written to my Senator concerning the appointment of an ambassador to the Vatican, which I am vehemently against . . . However, to my utter dismay, a group of such Protestants ventured to Washington, D.C. and displayed a shameful act of bigotry. Their statements and general actions were not displayed to express their opposition to the appointment but to express their disdain for our friends and neighbors, the Roman Catholics . . . CLARKE SCHAAF Springfield, Mass...
After the 7:43 a.m. express to New York chuffed off that day, Williams found he was $2.40 short. ("One of those birds . . . can't read," he cracked.) Next day he broke even. By that time the story was in the newspapers, and New York Central officials were expressing their concern about Williams' insulting Chappaqua's 700 commuters. Surprised at all the fuss and resigned to human nature in Chappaqua, the unreimbursed agent tossed the telltale film in the furnace and philosophically dropped one last insult: "After all . . . only five out of 700 were thieves...
...period between the King's death and his burial, most Britons had had their meed of public grief. "There is now a widespread feeling that the formal solemnity is being overdone," observed the Manchester Guardian. "Gloom, gloom, gloom drips forth from the BBC," complained London's Daily Express. But as the King's body lay in state at Westminster, Londoners felt a strong sense of history and a deep compulsion to share it. "I said to myself, Elsie, you put on your hat, I said, and take a bus and go up there," explained one member...
President Conant, in accepting the resignation effective February 18, stated: "May I take this occasion to express my disappointment that it has been impossible for you to take up the work here at Harvard as professor of Government. If at some later time the situation changes and you will be available for an academic post, I hope you will write me; for while I cannot say now that a position would be available nor foresee the needs of the Department of Government, I am sure that everyone here would wish to renew the offer if it were possible within...
...policy statement of the committee reads, "We believe that Professor Struik should have the right to express his views without intimidation. Without taking a stand on his political opinions, we feel his indictment is a potential threat to the freedom of expression...