Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Every cent of Harvard's gift will be spent directly, immediately, by the World University Service for the relief of suffering students. The University will express next Monday and Tuesday a profound humanitarian concern for repressed Hungary...
Next day in Budapest, Barber made the mistake of violating a rule he had set for himself: no travel at night. With the London Daily Express' Sefton Delmer and an interpreter, he set out to tour the city. Russian machine gunners opened up on the car, almost cut it in two, crumpled...
...Take a Picture for Me." Meantime correspondents were building up pressure at the Nickelsdorf frontier barrier. First to get through was the Daily Express' Sydney Smith. When the guards lifted the barrier for another purpose, Smith gunned his poised car, shot past them and, despite their shouts to halt, lit out for Budapest. Next day other newsmen persuaded the guards to let them through in cars and as hitchhikers on Hungarian army trucks. In Budapest they set up shop in the Duna Hotel, a dingy fleabag on the Danube. There they got a shaky warning from the New York...
...diehard Blimps, as usual, died hard. Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express (circ. 4,042,334), whose zealous devotion to imperialism has outlived the empire, usually flaunts its dislike of Sir Anthony Eden. But last week it hailed his action: "Let there be no doubt that it is a prudent step, a necessary step and one that deserves unqualified support from the nation." The chest-beating tabloid Daily Sketch (circ. 1,123,855) shrilled: "Stop the sniveling and close the ranks." But misgivings ran like chills through responsible Tory papers that staunchly upheld the government when the Suez crisis broke...
Carl Sloan '58 said last night that he would introduce the motion because he felt that "alumni are trying to make the decision, and I think that the present student body should at least express their opinion...