Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into Gettysburg last week clicked a New Year's greeting from Russia's Khrushchev, Bulganin and Voroshilov ("We express the hope that the forthcoming year will be a year... when the great principles of peaceful coexistence...will become the basis of mutual relations between our states"") that turned out to be one of the week's cheerier messages to Dwight Eisenhower. At home, retired Defense Chief Charlie Wilson declared to New York Herald Tribune Washington Bureau Chief Robert J. Donovan (who wrote the authorized account, Eisenhower-The Inside Story) that Ike himself was to blame if this...
Next day most of the papers were in full, ecstatic cry. Headlined the News Chronicle: THE QUEEN'S TV TRIUMPH! Cheered the Daily Sketch: "The Queen knocks those critics cold!" The only faultfinder was Donald Edgar of the Daily Express. Why, asked Edgar, had not someone the sense to tell the Queen that her dress ("It was fussy with that great big bow") was wrong for TV? Why was her makeup...
Toward the Acid Test. The doctors concluded that by this time Congrave's reasoning ability had recovered far beyond his ability to articulate. This might be dangerously frustrating, but so far the patient has shown no sign of it beyond scratching his head when puzzling out how to express something which he obviously had formulated clearly in his mind...
...confirm the support of our governments for the independence and sovereignty of the states of [the Middle East] and our interest in the economic well-being of their peoples. We express our interest in the maintenance of peace and the development of conditions of stability and economic and political well-being in the vitally important Continent of Africa . . . Historic, economic and other friendly ties between certain European countries and Africa would make such cooperation particularly desirable and effective...
Different from the Rest. Across the Columbia River in Kennewick. the Rev. Charles W. May, 40, of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, announced himself in "complete disagreement." The pulpit, he went on, "should not be used to express personal views when they are contrary to the doctrines of the church...