Word: impressible
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...body." When TV Actor Richard Basehart recommended Anne to Producer Fred Coe as an ideal Gittel for Two for the Seesaw, Anne was only too anxious to try. She was going East for a sister's wedding anyway; she read the play and decided that she would impress Coe, not by acting, but by being Gittel. "I made sure he found me with one shoe off, scratching my foot," she recalls. "And when I got inside his office, the first thing I said was, 'Where's the John?' It was just the sort of thing Gittel...
...injections of Western capital, however massive, will have any lasting effect unless their recipients impose upon themselves political and economic discipline. And in Asia, Africa and Latin America there is still a painful dearth of leaders with the courage or wisdom to try to impress upon their people that national prosperity cannot be a gift from outsiders, that it can only be achieved by prolonged effort and by investing the fruits of today's self-denial in tomorrow's production. This, though no one in Rome last week dared say it in so many words, is the first...
Another Student Council committee has produced another report demonstrating complete inability to deal with the central issues of its chosen problem. The Parietal Hours committee has written a study which may overwhelm students and impress council members, but which has no hope of convincing the Faculty...
Their answers startle and confuse him. One just hated Mexicans and wanted "to kill me a couple." Another was so scared he did not know what he was doing. The third was hoping to impress his superiors and advance his career. Cooper is even more startled when four of his five heroes calmly refuse the highest honor their country can bestow (one, it turns out, is wanted for murder in Albuquerque, and the publicity would probably hang him). When Cooper refuses their refusals, they t- blackmail. Finally, one of them tries to kill...
...their anxiety to impress, Mao and his minions had made some eye-catching changes in Peking that were sure to evoke oohs and ahs from their hundreds of foreign guests, chief of whom will be Nikita Khrushchev. In the last nine months, the Reds have thrown up a spanking new Peking railroad station, capable of handling 200,000 passengers a day, and they boast that they are erecting enough other buildings to give the capital a total of 398 million sq. ft. of new floor space-more than 14 times that of all the office buildings put up in Manhattan...