Word: impartation
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...during Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue of 1975-76 when he barnstormed the continent with other illustrious troubadours. Unfortunately, the concert foot age accounts for less than half of the movie's four-hour running time. The rest consists of improvised fictional scenes that are meant to impart Dylan's metaphysical view of the universe and himself - though not necessarily in that order. Dylan plays a masked entertainer named Renaldo...
...week, teaching them good values." The speaker is New York Knicks Forward Spencer Haywood, who left his home town of Silver City, Miss., at age 14 because there wasn't enough money to feed the ten kids in his family. At age 28, Haywood is trying to impart some "good values" to children in Manhattan's poor neighborhoods. His method? A basketball clinic where he teaches boys and girls aged ten to 17 about fair play on and off the court. At a session at a local playground, Haywood paused between games to hear his young players talk...
...making studies public may reveal their secret information-gathering techniques and sources. But Deputy Director Henry Knoche, a CIA career man and its second-ranking official, argues that "there are ways of more adroitly writing our reports so we don't give away sources and methods, but can impart our conclusions." Turner believes too much secrecy makes it harder to keep the significant secrets. Says he: "The less we classify, the better off we are in protecting what we have to protect...
...they had invisible springs between them. Getting them to join requires that they approach each other with enough energy to overcome their natural repulsion and smash together. Thus causing large numbers of nuclei to fuse and provide substantial energy requires three conditions: 1) very high temperatures (which impart great velocity to the nuclei), 2) high density (the nuclei crowded together to increase the probability of head-on collisions), and 3) confinement of the high-speed, densely packed nuclei for a long enough time to enable the fusion reaction to occur and to sustain itself...
...next year, she entered the world of golfing polemics, refuting the iconoclastic thesis of two savants of the golf swing, Alister Cochran and John Stobbs. Leslie showed that the surface of the clubface does, in fact, impart more backspin on the ball depending on its roughness...