Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fifth Republic to be secular. Only a few voices were still raised against De Gaulle. Though his own Radical Socialists had refused to back him, Pierre Mendes-France stubbornly insisted that to vote oui was to vote for dictatorship and the end of parliamentary government. In L'Express. Writer-Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, onetime Communist sympathizer, wrote tartly: "I do not believe in God, but if I had to choose between him and De Gaulle, I would sooner vote for God: he is more modest...
Lone Critic. Only one influential voice, the newspaper L'Action, patterned after Paris' outspoken L'Express, dared speak up against this autocratic trend. Last week Bourguiba abruptly silenced that voice...
Peterson said that while he "recognized the opportunity" Dawson had opened to him, he first "wanted to express the appreciation felt by the entire club for the fine work and the inordinate amount of time Alec Dawson has devoted to the HYRC...
Diners' had no serious competition until old, bold American Express three months ago dealt itself into the card game, enlisted the aid of its worldwide contacts to drum up members. Through banks, American Express mailed applications to 8,000,000 depositors-people who obviously have some money to spend. President Ralph T. Reed also sent personal letters to 22,000 corporation presidents. More than 300 American Expressmen started knocking on doors of executive suites all round the U.S. to sell the credit card (charge: $6 per year for initial card, $3 for other members of the same firm...
...Tricks. Both American Express and Diners' furiously scouted out and signed up new services. American Express won a hand by signing Manhattan's Toots Shor restaurant, long a credit-card holdout. Diners' bounced right back by announcing a contract with the Stork Club, another holdout. American Express then scored by adding a galaxy of nonrestaurant services: Western Union, Greyhound Bus, Avis and Hertz car rentals, Kinney Parking Systems, Kelly Girls for temporary office help. Amexco spread the word that in any of its 303 international offices, a cardholder could charge a ticket or tour to any spot...