Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...industry, and taken over some 2.5 million acres of the country's arable farm land from Somoza and his cronies, yet they have allowed the private sector to retain control of about 60% of the gross national product. Despite their uncertainty over the Sandinistas' aims, many businessmen express cautious optimism about the future. Says Jorge Salazar, president of the Agricultural Producers' Union: "The private sector that is not investing in Nicaragua left with Somoza...
...been seen on Brazilian television in eight years. In Salvador, the Pope issued a blunt warning to Latin America's rulers: "The realization of justice in this continent presents a clear dilemma: either it will be done through profound and courageous reform, according to principles that express the supremacy of human dignity, or it will occur-but without lasting results and without benefit for mankind-by the forces of violence." In other words: change now or face bloody revolution...
...referee steps between the combatants and announces the fight will not continue. Larry Holmes, champion, has defeated Scott Ledoux, challenger. The Ledoux partisans express their disapproval of the referee's decision with a torrent of boos and a barrage of debris. A large man moves quickly from his ring-side seat to the ring apron, careful to place himself in line with the television cameras...
...proclaimed that "Maine is a strong si lent country and so I being born there am able to express it in terms of itself with which I am familiar...
These entries from 1939 to 1944 express more than mere temperament; they reveal a whole epoch. The fifth volume of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's confidential writings starts with the dawn of war in Europe, "like the morning after a death," and continues to another death, that of the French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery. "I am sad," she notes, "that he never forgave us for our stand...