Word: impels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...forget--but move on. These two themes impel Reagan on the eve of his trip. "I am hopeful that when people see and hear the tone of that day of remembering they will understand. I recognize that when I said once in answer to a question that the people in that cemetery, even though they were the enemy, the conquered enemy, that they too were victims of Nazism, someone interpreted that as meaning that they were as much victims as were the people in the Holocaust. No. The people in those camps have a memory that I doubt any other...
...comes from the same thing that turns the private person into a public actor: an emotional apparatus so overactive that it can surround molehills of circumstance with mountains of drama. An unusual need for affection and applause is only the most conspicuous of the traits that impel a person toward the actor's life. Not quite so visibly, the actor type tends to have a streak of emotional gluttony on or off stage or screen. The result is an inclination to inflate the clichés of existence with more dramatic heat than ordinary people can work...
Something would be lost even in victory. Approval of the sale would enrage Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and perhaps harden him against further conciliation in the Middle East peace process. Disapproval would humiliate Reagan. In addition, it would likely impel the Saudis to buy comparable Nimrod radar planes from Britain and would weaken U.S. influence with the biggest exporter of oil to the West. Whatever the outcome, the debate has already strained U.S.-Saudi relations and diminished Reagan's standing among American Jews...
...deadliest enemy, however, is his former self. The only credentials he can recover from his past are those of a sadistic executioner in Viet Nam, and he is all but convinced he was that man. It takes the tendresse of Marie and the cunning of Carlos to impel Cain toward his moment of truth, a shattering set piece that takes place on Manhattan's East Side...
...anger caused by the seizure of hostages in Iran, is unmistakably indignant, but it is also puzzled and frustrated. People feel injured in their national pride and yearn for tougher action. But they are not ready for war, and are unable to figure out what nonmilitary actions might impel the Soviets to pull out of Afghanistan or the Iranians to free the hostages. Kenneth Stein, an assistant professor of Middle Eastern history at Emory University, describes the feeling as "a sense of impotence and frustration...