Word: man-in-the-street
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...Roman man-in-the-street simply says: 'Thank God, we know where the U.S. stands.' But one important reservation was expressed by a barber in a well-known shop patronized by haggard Assembly deputies. Said he: 'Well, I suppose all this makes things clearer, but when it's between Greece and Turkey on one side and Russia and Yugoslavia on the other, it's a devil of a choice you give...
Said Russia's man-in-the-street: "If they can't eat all the potatoes, why not make them into vodka...
Last week Gonzá1ez received some 200 man-in-the-street callers in his huge, gilt-&-damask office. A taxi driver under 60 days' sentence for drunkenness explained that he was not driving while drunk-just sitting in his taxi on the edge of town, knowing that he had had one too many. The President suspended sentence...
...English art has vanished more completely than that of the Nottingham alabastermen. Once, throughout Europe, their work was literally worshiped; today, London's man-in-the-street finds it less familiar than Congo carvings, Chinese jade, or Henry Moore's pinheaded women. Now a wealthy U.S. expatriate, Dr. Walter Leo Hildburgh, has set out to remind England of its alabastrine past...
...Norway, where he was feted on his soth birthday last summer by everyone from Crown Prince Olaf to Communist Party leaders; but when a TIME correspondent asked a Warsaw hairdresser last week for her opinion of Trygve Lie, she merely asked: "What is that?" London's man-in-the-street (and many an intellectual) has never heard of Lie. In Paris, an unusually well-informed headwaiter exclaimed: "Ah out, isn't he that Swede who presides over U.N., makes $20,000 a year and pays no income tax? Quel veinard (what a lucky guy), I'd like...