Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...simply magari," he told an American friend, adding: "In rough translation, that means, 'Thank God, you finally went and did it.' " The British press, most of which had hooted in cheery derision at the flop of the Navy's Project Vanguard, now cheered. Wrote the London Express: "The moon's signal is a high-pitched, continuous wheeee. And that can be translated as, 'Cheer up, America. We're in the heavens, all's right with the world...
...average TV, but it still creaked of banality, of too many artificial characters acting intensely about too little. And it completely missed Wilder's subtle mockery of Calvinist theology and his "animal repudiation of my father's notion that what happens to you is a series of express prizes and punishments from a minutely attentive, score-keeping...
...commission, he sparked the French drive to develop Sahara oil. Appointed one of the "Three Wise Men" in 1955 to look into Western Europe's energy needs, he has led the campaign for European development of atomic power. Louis Armand arguing for Euratom, says Paris' L'Express, "is Saint Bernard preaching at Vezelay on Easter Sunday and leading his listeners off on the Crusade." Though he starts, he says, with "three empty notebooks and a pencil," Armand promises 15 million kw. of atomic-produced electric power for "Little Europe" by 1967. (U.S. atomic-power goal...
...technician objected, as a Roman Catholic, to destroying a human body. Next Dr. Cooney tried to bury the mummy, and found that he could get no city burial permit. Then he tried to ship it out of town to a small museum, only to be turned down by Railway Express for lack of the physician's death certificate that would have qualified him for the burial permit. When Dr. Cooney made known his quandary, he had no trouble hitting Page One. Last week, over-cutely swathed as The Complex Mummy Complex, Dr. Cooney's story got into...
Fresh Start. In Lyon, France, Railroad Employee Roger Clavey-Rolles, 35, charged with breaking into a woman passenger's sleeping compartment on the Narbonne-Paris Express, explained to police: "I wanted to begin the year in good company...