Word: impresses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...answer, which has been very popular in Britain, maintains that Kennedy deliberately cancelled Skybolt to eliminate Britain from the nuclear club. The period of humiliation was designed, so the theory goes, to forceably impress upon the English, as well as DeGaulle, that the U.S. was running the nuclear armaments show and did not welcome competition. This explanation concurs with statements by both Kennedy and McNamara on the necessity for a "unified NATO command," which is today U.S. command. Enticing as this theory may sound, it does not quite square with the final outcome of the Skybolt affair. For the Polaris...
...soil. He tried two colleges (Dartmouth, Harvard), and quit both. In the years that followed, he scrabbled out an existence on a New Hampshire farm, working the rocky soil and scratching out poems in the evening by lamplight. The experience shaped his poetry and his thinking, but failed to impress U.S. publishers. And in 1912, at the age of 38, he took a chance, sold the farm, sailed with his growing family for Britain. There he met Ezra Pound and was unawed, sold his first book, and three years later returned to the U.S. in triumph. In the long later...
...stump speech need not make sense or state an argument lucidly. Such precision would detract from its real purpose--to excite the uneducated and impress upon them the identification of the speaker with "traditional values." The phrases must pour forth in magnificent thunder, roll like waves across the audience. Any attempt at argument might confuse the people--or if they understood it, enrage them. Unfortunately for the Honorable Governor, his audience at Sanders wanted clear argument. Three professors of law were on hand to debate substantive issues in intelligible terms. Ross gave them only patriotic sentiments, eloquent appeals to liberty...
...warm spit." In the days of Richard Nixon, it seemed that the vice-presidency was changing, toward greater scope and power. But Eisenhower delegated to Nixon special roles as Administration spokesman and party leader. Those roles were not inherent in the office of Vice President and left no permanent impress upon it. Politician Kennedy has delegated no such roles to Politician Johnson...
...average age is over 60, and some of the wrinkles show. Last fiscal year A. & P. slipped $6,000,000 in sales and $1,500,000 in earnings, while some competing chains, notably second-place Safeway, marked up good gains. The directors' revolt against age failed to impress outgoing President Ralph Burger, who has been with A. & P. for 51 years. After all, he learned his trade and landed his job from Brothers John and George Hartford, who made A. & P. the empire it is. John lived to be 79-and died on the job; George worked to within...