Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only the pressure of [the NATO meeting] prevented my writing before to express my very great appreciation of the way in which the TIME story was handled. If there is a fault, it is that the comments about myself are overgenerous, and that is a fault which I find no difficulty in forgiving...
...post. Said the new Premier: "I'm unprepared to take up the premiership, but cannot refuse because it is a call to duty. Besides, this appointment demands someone well versed in foreign affairs, and I'm not. I cannot even speak English well enough to express myself. I'm afraid that my cherished reputation, which I built by long years of conscientious work in the army, may be ruined in politics." To forfend any such disaster, Premier Thanom shrewdly asked Thailand's wise and respected Prince Wan Waithayakon and two other distinguished Thai statesmen and scholars...
...Back in Fleet Street, Barber's "triumphant arrival" at the Pole in a U.S. Navy plane won a game salute from the Daily Mirror (circ. 4,658,793). But Beaverbrook's Daily Express (circ. 4.024,800), the Mail's archrival in the derring-do dateline, was as elaborately unimpressed as its big type could say. On the day of his triumph, without mentioning Barber, the paper ran a cut of the thickly populated U.S. polar base, "The 'Town at the South Pole," and noted pointedly that "the polar 'bus run' flight has become...
...Last Word. Crowed a Mail editorial over its icy ace: "He is among the great reporters of the world." The Express could not stand this, last week struck back with a new contest. YOUR TRIP TO THE SOUTH POLE, ran a Page One headline (then a subhead FOR OF COURSE EVERYBODY'S DOING IT). Said the story: "The winner wouldn't be alone when he got there. These days politicians-even entertainers!-are flying in 'on the milk run' almost every day. WHY DON'T YOU GO TOO!" Next day the Express announced the details...
...Mail did not stoop to reply, but its sister Rothermere paper, the Daily Sketch (circ. 1,304,892), cried in protest: "Utter rubbish." Added the Sketch: "If the Daily Express manages to get one reader to the South Pole by the end of January, we will pay ?500 to any charity the Daily Express chooses." In the midst of the English winter, hundreds of Express readers entered the contest to get to the Pole. But at week's end, while Fleet Street bet privately that the Sketch's money was safe, the Mail's Barber...