Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reaction among Americans on the High Commission staff is mixed. Some are thoroughly pleased by the appointment, while others again express doubts't that a non-professional can handle Germany's complex problems...
That was the starting point for TIME'S Paris bureau when they were asked to find the author himself. The American Express office was holding letters for Wilder, but didn't know where he was. Correspondent Fred Klein got in touch with the American Embassy, Paris publishers and others, finally received word that Wilder could probably be found at Saint-Moritz...
...Foreign Office either was not aware of, or did not care about these circumstances; its only security check on Powell had been a cursory look at his record in a few reference books like Who's Who. Only when the curious London Daily Express telephoned to ask why Powell had been selected, did the Foreign Office take a second look; then it reacted as if it had suddenly discovered considerably more about Scientist Powell's background than was public knowledge. "There is a normal checking routine in all cases," explained the Foreign Office lamely, "but in this particular...
...True, the Foreign Office [now] states that steps have been taken to put matters right," exploded the Express. "But is not this precisely what the Foreign Office said after MacLean and Burgess disappeared...
...Momi's years of service, the towermen could remember her making only one misstep-that terrible time when, by accident, she stepped on a signal button on the tower control panel and brought a fast express screeching to a stop on the tracks below. Tower Master Eugenio Olivieri picked Momi up by the scruff of the neck that day and threw her out of the window, but Momi, battered and limping, returned...