Word: conveys
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...twelve Americans involved had a very different experience. The U.S. and British consuls painstakingly negotiated with Aeroflot to fly the strandees out the next evening-although not before the travelers, who had no transit visas, spent several hours locked up in their hotel. When the U.S. consul went to convey the good news, he was besieged by angry Japanese who claimed that they were ignored by their consul. "A novel experience for an American consul," he commented...
...vehicle moving at less than a mile an hour toward its pad 3½ miles away. "This is going to bring to a close the Apollo program," said Flight Commander Gene Cernan. "I hope by the time we get back home from the moon, we can convey that this is just the beginning of man's movement into an infinity of time and space...
...character. The kind of crisis described here, in which power switched from creative personnel to research-oriented account executives, was a familiar story along Madison Avenue during the recession two years ago. What the author, who is a vice president of Doyle Dane Bernbach, does very convincingly is to convey what life in a big-time agency must be like: the daily routine, the steps up, sideways and down, the monotonous tides of taste and style, the Byzantine rules of client diplomacy. Though the comparison may seem incongruous, Dillon's approach to his professional world resembles Mystery Writer Dick...
...make the visitors forget that they are cooped up in a golden ghetto." The most striking features of the village are the huge color-coordinated "media pipes" that meander throughout the compound at a height of 15 feet; their colors not only lead athletes to their proper buildings but convey power, water and taped music. The starkly modern design and easy atmosphere of the village suggest a kind of Op art campus where the athletes take community sunbaths, refresh themselves with drinks from a free milk bar, and are attended by hostesses in puffy powder-blue dirndls with white aprons...
...interviewed a survivor of those last days in the bunker. At that time, says Guinness, "Hitler was almost senile; at the age of 56, he was 70. He took pep pills, and at times he would have fits. At other times he would get the giggles. I try to convey that comic side. You know, he could be extremely childlike as well as childish...