Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus, a group of officers in 1936 sent soldiers to express their lack of confidence in Premier Okada; by mistake they shot instead the Premier's brother, who resembled him. Needless to say, the act did not pass unnoticed. Okada's political life was over...
...into a position that alarmed the public. Long before McCarthy, the U.S. had been slipping into the lazy fallacy that all ideas, policies and political systems are approximately equal-a state of mind very different from the valid principle that all men have a right to express their ideas, however bad. Part of the U.S. public, overtolerant of bad ideas, was a sucker for McCarthy's bigoted effort to prove that bad policy must be the work of evil, traitorous...
...Austrians wanted to express their gratitude," he records. "Their astronomers discovered a new planet and named it Hooveria. That ought to have placed me among the Greek gods, for names of planets had been . . . previously reserved for them. However, some member of a world astronomical committee on nomenclature subsequently protested, and I was put off Olympus."* He dealt on his own terms with Lloyd George ("He was as nimble as the pea in a shell game") and Clemenceau ("He never did understand Mr. Wilson. I don't think he tried to"), and played a bigger role at Versailles than...
While Driver Deibel was on the road, 127 other trucks were hauling other newsstand copies of the U.S. Edition. More than half, however, of the total newsstand supply were delivered by Railway Express, frequently using crack passenger trains. Meanwhile, a few thousand newsstand copies were being flown to posts in Canada and Alaska and pilots were flying copies of the Latin American, Atlantic or Pacific Editions to six continents and over five seas to all the far-flung places where TIME is read...
...recall from my years in Russia, raises serious doubt as to whether an interpreter who was a Soviet citizen would feel free to translate unfavorable comment on the regime without fear of reprisals. It is also a question whether the average Soviet citizen would be likely to express such sentiments to a foreigner through an official interpreter...