Word: expressive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the official press glorifies--shamefully using for its propaganda ends--the noble exploits of the Hungarian students against Russian totalitarianism, it has tried to suppress the voice of the students of Barcelona, who have attempted to express their desire for human dignity and liberty...
...guilty conscience of the governing elements, knowing themselves to be isolated from all popular support and in the midst of growing hostility, led them to suppress all attempts to express this sincere and general feeling. The order was given to put a quick end to the political manifestation springing from the student body. And the "forces of order," tommy guns in hand, entered the confines of the university, striking the students with the butts of their guns, forcing them to retreat into the classrooms (several students, fleeing the police, were able to take refuge in a class for foreign students...
...express our gratitude to the faculty for its courageous behavior during its Academic Council. While we deplore and condemn the position taken by professors: Lines, Sanmartin, Valdecasas, Sanmiguel, who acted against the interests of the University and the student body. We also condemn behavior of Mr. Tremosa, Director of the Technical School, who threatened with immediate police arrest the student delegation who came to request that he close the school...
...Greek resolution would have the Assembly take note that the situation on Cyprus has "gravely deteriorated," and express the wish that Cypriots be given "the opportunity to determine their own future by the application of their right to self-determination...
...would tell. Whatever the cause, the effect was a national wave of sentiment in favor of Mike Parker reminiscent of the emotional binge touched off two years ago by the unhappy romance of Princess Margaret and divorced commoner (and palace staffer) Peter Townsend. "Why," demanded Lord Beaverbrook's Express, for many years an ardent opponent of palace puritanism, "should a broken marriage be a disqualification for royal service? Until a few weeks ago the First Minister of the Queen [twice-married Sir Anthony Eden] was a man who had been through the divorce courts...