Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must not read too much into the behaviour of the Asian countries in signing the treaty," he warned. "Their behaviour does not always express the opinion of the articulate classes. Indonesia, for instance, may have trouble ratifying the treaty at home...
Those who want the inside story on Red China may be led astray by the ads for "Peking Express." Most of the "action" in this picture takes place inside a 1910 railroad car that might as well be standing in the Chicago stockyards. Joseph Cotten, cast as a United Nations doctor, wanders aimlessly up and down the aisle accompanied by equally aimless Corinne Calvert. Miss Calvert bites her tongue occasionally to express emotion and indicate that she's still alive...
Thus last week London's Tory Daily Express greeted the long-awaited, long-deferred decision of Prime Minister Clement Attlee to call autumn elections. Britain will elect a new Parliament...
Crisis Mounts. Few Britons, Conservative or Socialist, shared the Express' mood of jubilee. But practically all agreed that Tory chances for a return to power were good. Since the close vote of 1950, Labor has clung to office by a fingernail parliamentary majority (at one time as narrow as three). For months, Attlee and his ministers have been watching the gathering clouds of a new economic crisis. The old demon, the dollar gap, is back. The coal mines cannot supply the demand for fuel. Electric power shortages are developing. Millions of Britons face another dreary winter of insufficient coal...
...member of the graduating class of '51, urged by an uncertain motive, should like to express an uncertain feeling. Four of the most fruitful years of my life have been spent here, I'm sure; and perhaps as a result these years have instilled in me a certain love or admiration for Harvard: a love of education, of independence, or some similar thing in the atmosphere. When I first came here as a naive freshman, I was surprised by the friendly attitude of my class mates, the lack of "the accent" and diversity of individual background. In spite...