Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the synchronized frenzy of the 1,200 trained seals who make up Communist China's National People's Congress. One subject not originally on the agenda caused the most heat. The subject: Tibet. "The Tibetan reactionaries," sneered Premier Chou Enlai, "often put on pious airs and express the hope that everyone will go to heaven. But they have turned Tibet into a hell on earth." Another speaker charged that "the British imperialists and Indian expansionists instigated the Tibetan upper-strata reactionary clique to carry out a traitorous armed rebellion . . . We want to warn the Indian expansionists . . . Please...
Beginning in February, Daily Mirror Columnist Richard Crossman, a Labor M.P., urged Prime Minister Macmillan to step into the Western vacuum of leadership. Said Grossman: "Poor Mr. Eisenhower is far too old and ailing even to try negotiations with the Kremlin." Asked the Sunday Express: "Will Ike now turn to Macmillan?" Answer: yes. Reason: "Too long has Ike let himself be known as a leader only in title, who in fact, needs someone else to lead him." Said the Daily Telegraph: "President Eisenhower is, alas, no longer robust, and the West can provide no substitute for an active and authoritative...
Last week the attack continued in full cry. The Observer spoke worriedly of the President's "apparent incapacity for work or decision." Asked the Sunday Express: "Has the time come for Ike to step down? . . . What chance has the free world when its leadership is in the hands of a man who can hardly perform his day-to-day tasks? How can we expect President Eisenhower to hold his own against Mr. Khrushchev, healthy, exuberant, indefatigable...
...tangled ancestry of the Messinas, proved they were Italians from Sicily and not, as they claimed, Maltese who were entitled to British citizenship. Carmello was deported, and Attilio will be when he gets out of jail. "The Messina vice ring was finally smashed!" cried the London Daily Express...
...customer who wants a little sentimental education, this is a pretty pleasant way to get it. Actors Chevalier and Brazzi ooze the old-world charm. Actress Kerr is lovely to look at, and in a comedy role reveals a subtle sense of humor and a refined capacity to express it. And the script is often amusing in a mildly risky way. "When I think," the heroine rages, "he was making love to all the others at the same time!" And her father replies with gentle horror: "Surely not at the same time...