Word: impressible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elliott's views on international affairs-which are not likely to impress many readers-are pretty much of a piece with those of Ralph Ingersoll, Louis Adamic, or Henry Wallace. The gist of them is that the U.S. has "deliberately" betrayed F.D.R.'s hopes and plans...
What were the Russians up to? Observers ventured three guesses: 1) the Russians were testing rocket equipment left by the Germans at Peenemünde, the now Russian-occupied V-bomb launching site (110 miles from Sweden); 2) they were trying to impress the world; 3) they were underlining, perhaps coincidentally, their suggestion that Stockholm give Moscow a one billion kronor ($278,500,000) credit, more than Sweden can afford without disrupting her economy...
...intend here to deprecate any of the fine work being done by the Harvard European Food Relief Committee. They are making magnificent and remarkable strides in handling their difficult problems. My intention has been to impress the tremendous need for food in the Orient, and to throw some light on a currently critical and neglected situation. Michael B. Rothenberg...
...Giovanni, each Madonna and Child, Crucifixion, Pieta, martyred saint, and lay portrait was an essay on nature as well as on man. He organized his pictures with the care of a conscientious gardener, planting every detail where it would have room to grow and impress itself on the eye. Light was all-important in his best works; he fixed its color and quality precisely enough to show the weather and the time of day. But the light said even more: he made it a link between people and landscapes. In paintings like Saint Francis (see cut), the painted light seems...
Ehrenburg was strong, too, on the subject of Fascism. "We don't want to impress our ideas on anyone," he said, "Those in the United States who attack the Soviet are really not anti-Russian; they are pro-Fascist and anti-American. We must agree on the answer to one question: 'do we want Fascism?' Fascism is a cuit of brute force which says one nation is better than another because of the color of its skin or the shape of its nose...