Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express accused Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana of trying "to sneak Guinea into the Commonwealth by the back door," while the Paris press darkly hinted that perhaps the whole idea was a British plot to break up the French community in Africa. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan confessed that the whole thing came as a "complete surprise," and many Britons wondered why Nkrumah had not consulted his Commonwealth partners in advance. Nevertheless, the voice of pan-Africanism had spoken, and its echoes could be heard all through the week...
...young widow at a quiet White House ceremony last week, President Eisenhower handed a letter sealed in a pale green envelope and expressing deep personal feeling: "To the President of the U.S. in 1972-76: The recent untimely death of a fine young American-Captain Iven C. Kincheloe Jr., U.S. Air Force-brought a real sense of loss to our nation. In recognition of his many exemplary deeds as a pioneer in advanced aeronautic research, I am making a request which seeks to express, in a small measure, the gratitude of the nation. I request that you consider the merits...
...queued up in Tokyo department stores to buy tickets enabling them to get hoops later. In Johannesburg only the white kids can afford the 65? hoops, but charitable organizations have begun handing out hoops to poor Negro children. And in Geneva, the city of Calvin, the familiar phrase to express bewildered surprise has now become "Hula...
...London Daily Telegraph has added a new correspondent to its U.S. staff, subscribes to the New York Times news service; the London Daily Express now has six reporters in the U.S.-four in New York, one in Washington and one on the West Coast-and has introduced a regular weekly feature called "Transatlantic Page, " a compendium of items about the U.S. The Sunday Express, which recently went to 24 pages (from an average 16), has devoted much of the extra space to U.S. coverage, keeps a fulltime correspondent, Arthur Brittenden in New York City...
...over Alaska, eyewitnessed moon shots at Cape Canaveral, studied the lot of the Manhattan chairwoman, tuned in on Beat-Generation talk in San Francisco. London Sunday Times Reporter Kenneth Pearson flew over to file a three-part series on the Broadway musical, West Side Story-inspiring the London Daily Express to fly the West Side troupe to London for a night...