Word: impresses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least, there seems to be much wrong with Goldwater's argument. Its additional difficulty is that it just won't sell. First, it is too formalistic: the Constitution does not impress the average voter half as much as constructive action. Second, it is too far removed from reality: Goldwater never tells us how various services are to be performed once the Federal government gets its "unconstitutional" nose out. If I were a private individual with several million dollars, what on earth could I do about, for instance, urban renewal, that would not be better done if I turned my money...
...Committee for a SANE Policy, attempting to impress its on the United States Government, this misfortune must have seem ominous. A great many people inside the Arena, were prone to any efforts at disarmament with conciliations to the Soviet Union; and a purblind witch-hunter, at uncovering symbols as was as likely to head the same into an off-key version of the Spangled Banner as he would continuing partnership with the Amendment...
...want summer sessions for the gifted, special teachers for the retarded, night classes for the aged. The air-conditioned hive that serves this honey must house carpentry shops and physics laboratories, a hall for the town meeting, and perhaps a swimming pool that adults can use too. It must impress like a monument-and be as cheap as a summer cottage. It is running out of space, money and teachers...
Singapore was a fortress of paper-endless reams of paper that issued from British information offices assuring the world that Singapore was invincible. Confident that a constant boast of strength would impress the Japanese, the British encouraged "a complacency more impenetrable than the Malayan jungle." So writes Author Attiwill, who was there as a British soldier when Singapore fell in 1942 and vowed one day to tell the whole story...
...while the C. & O. has paid dividends all but two years since 1889, currently pays $4 per share. The C. & O., which had guessed down to the dollar how far the Central would go to top its offer, is counting on its sound financial position and dividend prospects to impress B. & O. stockholders more than the Central's bait...