Word: impressible
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Each day, Sir Winston opened the discussion by giving the Churchill view of this or that aspect of world affairs. Occasionally, some other P.M. would impress himself on the others-Malan, dour and superior; Canada's St. Laurent, dry and precise; Nehru, quick and likable but with an attachment to ideology that bored some of the battered politicos around him. But it was Churchill's conference throughout. He won Commonwealth backing on four big issues...
...Dominique got a job as charwoman to a rich family in town and Sister Marie Aline began to give French lessons and do babysitting. The people of La Bomba accepted them as their own. Women dropped in to offer help and ask advice; children picked up French words to impress them; during the black winter nights a couple of young men, apparently loafing around the sisters' hut, kept an eye peeled for obstreperous drunks. One widow with six children spoke for the whole community when she told how she felt about the nuns: "When I see them come...
...country. I therefore cannot agree with your criticism of a former American Administration." At a candlelight dinner at U.S. Ambassador Joseph Green's, young King Hussein, attired in a dinner jacket, bounded in like an American teen-ager come to pick up his date, stayed on to impress the Secretary with his earnest concern for his poor country. Dulles asked permission to visit some of the refugee camps; Jordan security officers refused, explaining: "We're not taking any chances." ¶General Adib Shishekly, boss of Syria, the fourth stop, seemed to impress Dulles more than any other Arab...
...Sara in 1949 to put her in line for the family fortune (reportedly around $50 million). The groom-to-be is Concert Pianist Anthony di Bonaventura, 23, whom Sara met in Philadelphia two years ago while he was a music student at Curtis Institute."Her millions don't impress me," he told reporters. Papa and Mama di Bonaventura, who had already entertained the Whitneys at a lasagna dinner in their East 17th Street flat, reported back from a chauffeur-driven visit to the 900-acre Whitney estate in Manhasset, Long Island: "We just had a good time talking...
...ordinary cats. They are not even hybrids between cats and rabbits, as some Manxmen believe. According to Zoologist Frederick Zeuner of London, they are genetic freaks: "mutations with a tailless characteristic apparently linked with high-leggedness." The type probably originated when one tailless, mutant tomcat managed to impress his character on a large number of descendants. The name of this Adam torn is not known, or even whether he operated in the Isle of Man, but ever since his time, cat breeders interested in taillessness have been frustrated by the capriciousness of his divergent genes...