Word: conveys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...direction according to the set of the rudder . . . When any person ran forward in it with his full speed, taking advantage of a gentle breeze in front, it would bear upward so strongly as scarcely to allow him to touch the ground, and would frequently lift him up and convey him several yards together...
...high-arching grace, to turn with cat quickness and fluidity on the ground or in midair, to project emotion with vivid movements of arms, legs and body. But Bruhn long ago became aware that "technique is not enough," and he is remarkable for the feeling of tension he can convey by his mere presence. Poised and trim (5 ft. 7_in., 140 Ibs.), he somehow rivets an audience with the promise of action before he has danced a step...
...Halberstam was not trying to convey a message in his writing. "I wanted it to be strong and as visual and as much fun as possible." He aimed at being unpretentious and was considerably irritated that several were trying to justify their Ph.D.'s in an extended search for meaning in the book...
Wesker uses a slice-of-life technique to convey a slice of lifelessness. Small, dun-colored, repetitious detail is ladled out till the audience is saturated in it. There is a certain mild humor in the repetitions, whether of the family's deadness or the offstage boy friend's didactic, doctrinaire lust for life. The humor turns grim when he rejects the girl, herself now lost between two worlds, too low for a hawk and too high for a buzzard. An honest but limited method, Wesker's leads to truthful but limited effects, and to believable characters...
...near future, President Bunting hopes to create a student advisory committee on housing policy to convey student suggestions on present and projected policies to the Administration...