Word: impresses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...retired engineer, now 68. was a bomber pilot in World War I who was shot down over the Western Front but managed to survive and fly again. He kept flying after the war, and for eight months was a barnstormer at county fairs. Sometimes when he stunted to impress the customers, his young wife Flo climbed out on the lower wing of his beat-up biplane...
...nothing else, it should stimulate national pride and impress all readers with the intellectual integrity, foresight and fortitude of our forefather leaders, who produced the Declaration, the Constitution and a doctrine of high purpose to put our country onto the path to greatness, on which we now seem to be walking with such faltering steps...
...this, as in much else during his lifetime, it was hard to dispose of E. E. Cummings easily-or, for that matter, to impress him with the modern world's displeasure. If he was limited as a thinker, Cummings nevertheless spoke in an astonishing range of poetic tones of voice and mastered a wild variety of poetic rhythms-lines that crept, leaped, staggered, paced proudly, turned on a dime, flowed smoothly as a prayer. More than any other poet of his time, he dressed up the few ideas he had in all sorts of outrageous and engaging costumes, cheerfully...
...took it upon himself to order one from a carpenter. When his father found out about it, he deducted the $4 cost from David's allowance over a period of months. A devout Baptist, John D. Jr. neither smoked nor drank and did everything in his power to impress upon his sons the evils of both practices. (David enjoys a martini or two before dinner, but has never taken up smoking...
Spaghetti & Seminars. After work, the interns go on gobbling up political atmosphere in a college version of the Washington cocktail circuit. They turn quaint Georgetown houses into lively dormitories, spend their thin weekly Government salaries (about $50) feeding each other wine-and-spaghetti dinners, and vie to impress each other-and each other's dates-with the latest poop from the office. On hot news, they like to boast, the intern network scoops the wire services by at least three hours. But they choke up dutifully on classified information, which doubly helps to promote what one Yaleman jokingly calls...