Word: impressible
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Senator Glen Taylor, onetime running mate of Henry Wallace whose yodeling and guitar-plunking during last month's primaries failed to impress Idaho Democrats (he has demanded a recount), announced that he may go into the theatrical producing business...
...House of Commons, Tory Earl Winterton asked Prime Minister Clement Attlee if he thought that the government should not try to impress the British public with the fact that ". . . an American force, greatly outnumbered and outgunned, fighting with the accustomed gallantry of the American and British armies in such a situation ... is the only effective opposition to Communist aggression in Korea at present...
...Bill Benton had put on a presentation that seemed to impress the Senate. But the U.S. was beginning to understand that U.S. troubles abroad have not come from a deficiency of clever commercials ; they have come from a deficiency of right action, from wrong action or from no action at all. U.S. words, like everybody else's, would always be interpreted against the background of U.S. deeds...
...committee gets an interview with the President, it will try to impress upon him the "disastrous impact" it feels the University's action will have on married students...
...Sylva had a camera dolly rigged up and told the director to follow her all over the set if necessary. "You can't keep her quiet," he said. "You'll lose her." But as he brought Betty slowly along to starring parts, De Sylva tried to impress her with the need for channeling her energy instead of letting it run all over...