Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work. Dulles gave the President the book at his bedside-What We Must Know About Communism-urged him to read it. At conversation's end the President tucked the book under his arm, stopped on his way out of the hospital to make a short statement: "... I express the thoughts and prayers of all of us that the results of his operation and the further course of treatment will be successful...
...Scuttle," roared Lord Beaverbrook's imperialistic Daily Express. "The Ministers are ready to cast away another jewel of the empire." But to the majority of Englishmen, the jewel seemed to be becoming as jinxed as the Hope diamond. Its loss seemed a small price to pay for peace in Cyprus, for the saving of lives of British Tommies, for the renewal of Britain's traditional friendship with Greece and the re-establishment of NATO unity...
...distant kin to the late Frank Gannett, who ran a bigger chain-currently 20 papers in four states. Guy's papers: the Portland Press-Herald, Express and Sunday Telegram, the Waterville Sentinel, and the Kennebec Journal in Augusta. Combined circulation...
...problem should be purely technical. But commercial competition and nationalistic pride confuse the issue. The British press has been loud in defense of the British Decca navigation system. Cried the Daily Express: "The Americans are pushing their own system, acknowledged to be less effective, but with big dollar investments behind it." Though the U.S. press has paid little attention, U.S., Government and commercial agencies are propagandizing vigorously in favor of the U.S. navigation system VOR/DMET...
Aparajito will probably be weighed in the balance with Pather Panchali and found slightly wanting. But such a comparison misses the point: as the second movement in a composition, Aparajito is meant to express the consequences of the first movement, Father Panchali, and to prepare the mood of the third movement, Apu Jagat ("The World of Apu"), which will probably be released in the U.S. in late 1959. In a pictorial sense the film lacks something of the noble simplicity of Father Panchali, but if its images are more sophisticated, they are no less brilliant and effective. What is perhaps...