Word: expression
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President Kennedy has backed McNamara. At his news conference, Kennedy placed the cost of the Skybolt system at $2.5 billion, a figure that Skybolt contractors feel is much too high. Kennedy also seemed to express doubt that Skybolt will ever work at all. Said he in a strangely defeatist statement: ''It has been really, in a sense, the kind of engineering that's been beyond...
...prospect hardly palatable to any government, much less Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's hard-pressed Tories. The U.S. will also offer to help Britain adapt its nuclear submarines to carry Polaris missiles; this would be better, but still not enough to satisfy the British. And Macmillan will certainly express that dissatisfaction in his Nassau meeting with Kennedy this week...
...first week of the strike. "This would be my luck," said Anievas gloomily, "to pick a week when the press is out for lunch. As things turned out, it was probably just as well. Despite his virtuoso technique. Anievas' playing lacked authority and. too often, the ability to express either the sweep of the music or its depth. But on occasion, as in Brahms's Variations on a Theme by Paganini and the singing passages of Sessions' First Sonata, he shed his tall, dark detachment and dug down to bring up the music that had been expected...
...other side of the scrap stood the Publishers Association of New York, a management team organized in iSg; for the express purpose of presenting labor with a united front. From experience, most recently the 1958 walkout of deliverymen that gagged New York's press for 19 days, the association has evolved a simple strategy: to close all member papers as soon as one is struck. Thus, when the I.T.U. picketed four papers, the publishers promptly closed five more: the Herald Tribune, the Mirror and the Post in Manhattan, and Samuel Newhouse's two Long Island dailies, the Press...
...central figure, Woody Hartman, gives Sydney Chaplin little to work with. On his 40th birthday Woody has misgivings about the value of his life and viability of his marriage. But how does he express the fact that he hates going through the middle-class motions? By second thoughts about his Great Neck home. The author uses this technique-characterization by telling reference--to the point of inanity...