Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ackerman will immediately close several of the 133 rental stations that Genet opened, many of them in small cities that cannot support them. To jack up the company, he will also promote package tours, charter service and express delivery. But his tour is limited; he must step out on his 65th birthday-in November of 1959-unless the board scraps Greyhound's mandatory retirement rule...
...Delhi there was real concern that India's neighbor Pakistan might have a revolution that would throw it into the arms of Nasser. "The time has come to re-evaluate and reassess our foreign policy," wrote Frank Moraes, biographer of Nehru and editor of the influential Indian Express newspaper chain. He referred to the danger to India from Communist China, which talks of "liberating Asia," and Communist influences on exuberant Arab nationalism. Enlarging on the dangers to India of Communist infiltration of "the huge Pan-Arab Islamic land mass," Moraes asked: "Is it in India's interest...
...important is as much a mystery to the broad-U.S. public as to puzzled Europeans. And not without reason. U.S. abstractionists discuss what they are doing in enigmas that would win kudos from a Zen master. Painter Franz Kline, asked what he was trying to express, replied: "When I was young, I was 19. Does that answer your question?" With few exceptions, critics do little better. Art News once described one of Mark Rothko's works as "haunted, like the shining skin of an opulent eggplant, by the clay-colored echo of a final and unbreakable promise...
Religious freedom is one of the fundamentals of the American creed. But how does religion fare in the free society of the U.S.? This week four scholars-Protestant, Jewish, Roman Catholic-deal with the question in a new study sponsored by the Fund for the Republic. * All express a surprisingly common concern: U.S. religion is in more peril than U.S. freedom...
...that point, the debate had been for the most part one between the two old adversaries. But now, meticulous, bespectacled Koto Matsudaira of Japan spoke up for the first time to express his government's "misgivings" over the U.S. intervention, and said that he would try to seek some sort of compromise. To add to the U.S.'s discomfiture, bald Omar Loutfi of the United Arab Republic produced a letter from the president of the Lebanese Parliament denouncing U.S. intervention as an infringement of Lebanese sovereignty. Finally, as the second day ended, still another sour note was sounded...