Word: expression
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Defferre is the mysterious "Monsieur X" whose virtues as a candidate have recently been touted by the influential left-wing weekly L'Express. The description fitted Defferre so perfectly that few Frenchmen had any doubt whom L'Express had in mind. As the Monsieur X campaign boomed on, Gaullists began to squirm, and Defferre's original resistance to the presidential fever weakened...
...larger whole. Especially the endings: "What we hear last is usually the most vivid to us." Avoid grammatical fussiness: "In certain cases a preposition is the most emphatic word to end a sentence with." But worry about words: "There is rarely more than one right word to express an idea exactly. See that you get that one right word...
...General Charles de Gaulle. Could this chicanery be anything less than the last and most dastardly doing of a case-hardened Commie villain called Alexei Vassilievitch Kalganov? It could not. Could anything be more cheerful than our hero's first assignment-a journey to Venice on the Simplon Express with a beautiful blonde, posing as her lover...
Thundering Express. Yet most Nubians were appalled by the first sight of their new home. Groaned one old man: "I used to be awakened each morning by the murmuring river waters. Now it is the dawn Cairo express from Aswan thundering in my ears." In Nubia, polygamous husbands had separate houses for each wife; at Kom Ombo, a man's wives must share his house, and many husbands, dismayed by the prospect, have divorced all wives save one. But a man who risked keeping both his wives concedes that the arrangement has advantages. "Here I do not have...
...evangelical conservatism charge that the real sources of its strength are desire for the sustenance of a simplified faith in an age of turmoil, wistful yearning for the good old days when Protestantism was in fact if not in name the American established church. Conservatives answer that they express the general belief of U.S. Protestants, who are indifferent to the complex insights of modern theologians and to the church-joining concerns of denominational leaders...