Word: imparted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...received from sports revolutionist Jack Scott (late of Patty Hearst case fame) when Scott was athletic director at Oberlin. "In 1972, Scott wanted me to drop everything and come out to Oberlin as the basketball coach. He was fascinated by sports psychology and wanted a coach who could impart that type of thing. He wanted to get rid of those people teaching courses on ankle wrapping...
...Have a jelly bean," she suggested, as if to impart the therapeutic properties of a librium to a piece of candy. I popped one in my mouth anyway...
...things mixed up here in thinking of ethics, because Harvard's ambience is one of delicately inter-related bigtime-ness and education--just like the Model U.N.'s To someone coming here from a place very different in scope, ambitious and eager to find a niche, Harvard could impart the desire for big expense accounts almost as easily as the desire for knowledge. The people in Mather 311 staged a conference that seems to have been almost a mirror of what they saw in Harvard. They created a United Nations that really was a Harvard model...
...ploy, that Writer James Costigan will find a way for old love to conquer all. But who cares? His nostalgic Edwardian romance is just a charming conceit designed to bring Hepburn, 65, and Olivier, 67, together. The director is Veteran George Cukor, 75, whose cutting and camera placements impart a subtle tension (and an air of elegant craftsmanship) above and beyond the call of television duty. Indeed, all three conspire to make Costigan seem a much wittier writer than he is. Olivier can get laughs by snuffling or shuffling the papers on his desk. Hepburn in a temper, or just...
...example of how the commission did work when ostensibly investigating, we have the interrogation of Jack Ruby. Earl Warren and then-Congressman Gerald R. Ford went to the Dallas jail in which Ruby was imprisoned after shooting Oswald and asked whether he had any information to impart to the commission. Ruby replied that he had a great deal to say, but that he would only testify in Washington, afraid that if he talked while in the very jail in which he killed Oswald, his own life would he in danger. After refusing to transport Ruby to Washington, despite the fact...