Word: expression
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clerk ruled that all amendments to the law must originate with the board and that council actions could only express the council's wishes to the board and city manager...
From high over the Atlantic Ocean last week Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev sent a warm greeting to President Nixon. "Flying close to the shores of the United States of America," radioed Brezhnev, "I express my very best wishes to you, Mr. President, to the Government and the people of the U.S. I am confident that relations between the Soviet Union and the U.S. will continue to develop to the benefit of our peoples and in the interests of international security and peace." Two hours later, Brezhnev's blue and white Ilyushin-62 jet landed in Havana...
...announcer for the Rucker summer basketball tournament in Harlem was groping for the best way to express his enthusiasm over the new court phenomenon. The youngster heard himself called "Houdini," "The Claw," "Black Moses"-and none of the nicknames pleased him. He took the announcer aside. Softly but deliberately he said, "Call me The Doctor.' " Julius Winfield Erving Jr., 21, was already demonstrating that he would...
...Angeles is constantly alight with all-night supermarkets, all-night traffic, all-night venality. He is awake to the phonies and moral bankrupts around him, and the audience sees L.A. as he sees it. The restless, light-drenched photography (by Altman veteran Vilmos Zsigmond), and nervy editing and soundtrack express the visual and aural equivalents of Marlowe's discontent and curiosity...
...Soviet countermove was sur prisingly mild, which suggests that the five may actually have been involved in espionage. Last week security agents arrested an obscure Chinese attache, Kuan Heng-kuang, aboard the Chinese-operated Moscow-Peking express at the Si berian city of Irkutsk. The Soviets claimed that the attache had been at tempting "to obtain espionage information of military nature from a Soviet woman." He was promptly ordered out of Russia. Since the diplomat was heading home anyway, the expulsion amounted to no more than a diplomatic gesture...