Word: expression
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy chose a tough audience for his first presidential policy speech to a private group: the blue-chip businessmen of the National Industrial Conference Board. Right off, he disarmed the skeptics with charm and wit. "It would be premature to seek your support in the next and inaccurate to express thanks having had it in the last one." Then he poked fun at the missile gap flap within his own team by referring to "what Democrats in this Administration used to call Missile...
...Lord Beaverbrook, who owns the Yankee-baiting, empire-loving Daily Express, Sunday Express, Evening Standard and Glasgow Evening Citizen. Combined circulation...
...Gospel, said Bishop Pike, is largely communicated by means of myth-not in the sense of an untrue fable ("A good myth is true"), but in the sense of a form used to express complicated and difficult truth, such as the Garden of Eden. Writes Pike: "I do not know a single member of the Anglican Communion-Bishop, presbyter, deacon or layman-who believes this story literally...
...poll of the Committee was completed Tuesday, Bolles said, in answer to a request from the Eastern hockey selection committee for contending teams to express their interest in participating in the tournament...
...fades now as the turmoil in the Congo is aggravated and the political eulogizers smack their lips. Hammarskjold calls for an investigation-too late. Soviet Ambassador Zorin attempts to make Premier Khrushchev the hero of the affair. And American statesmen, witnessing the logical result of their Congo policy, hollowly express shock...