Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elder Statesman Harry Truman disclosed that he is taking another fling at "the authoring business," has signed up to turn out two new books. The first, Mr. Citizen, to be published next March, will express Truman's general views on today's world. The other, still untitled, but set for publication a year later, will be addressed to U.S. youth (10 to 16), and will set forth what junior citizens should know about U.S. history. Explained Author Truman of the latter project: "I hope to correct what I believe are some serious misconceptions of our past, particularly with...
...Express cartoon was one of the lowest journalistic blows of the year; historic fact is that it was Pierre Laval's government which condemned De Gaulle to death in absentia after the fall of France in 1940, because of his refusal to collaborate with the Nazis. But low as it was, the cartoon was only a little lower than the run-of-the-mill abuse that London's Fleet Street was directing last week at De Gaulle and Adenauer...
...surge of British fear that Adenauer would somehow persuade Ike "to keep the cold war alive." To the Daily Mail (circ. 2,071,054), Adenauer was reminiscent of Adolf Hitler, "who ranted and raved to show what a great man he was." To Lord Beaverbrook's Express, Adenauer was "willing to prolong the quarrel between Russia and the U.S. for the purpose -the sole purpose-of recovering East Germany and the lands still further east which were handed over to Poland when Germany was defeated...
...answer to this was supplied by the influential Manchester Guardian. "The Express' circulation," said the Guardian, "is something which thoughtful Frenchmen are not prepared to shrug off." Fact is that, although Fleet Street may exaggerate popular emotions, it has a good nose for what they are. No one could doubt that ordinary Englishmen nodded in agreement when the Daily Herald, in a moment of candor, stated: "Between [De Gaulle and Adenauer] there is a common bond: a determination to cut down Britain's influence on the Continent...
More than a quarter of the ministers doubt that necessary marks of the true church are the preaching of the Gospel and the administration of the sacraments, while less than a fifth of the laymen express similar doubts...