Word: impressionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Clark: Let me just as gently and tactfully as I can disabuse your mind of the impression that you are running this investigation. We propose to examine into whatever we please and call those witnesses we desire to appear as we were instructed by the Senate to do.
General Hugh Johnson: "Head gives impression of being all face. Brutal, coarse, ruthless mug of toadlike consistency. Fleshy features of crude clay. Deep ruts ploughed down cheeks as if by cartwheels through heavy mud. Eyes smothered in stout scallops of pulp. Body prehistoric mound, clothing tugged on in folds like...
The New Deal's teamwork certainly was not clicking. The team's captain could not afford to let the impression get abroad, least of all at a time when he was trying to get U. S. businessmen in the bleachers rooting for his side. Messrs. Ickes and Moffett...
"It seems a pity that either misinterpretation or a desire to stir up trouble where no trouble exists should have given rise to stories which create the impression that there is a divergence of views. . . . We decline to furnish the material for a Roman holiday for those who are trying...
Great curiosity awaits the Shostakovich opera which will be given this winter in three U. S. cities.* Soviets regard the 28-year-old composer as their ablest musicmaker. His murderous heroine is really a lovable young woman driven to her crimes by incompatible bourgeois surroundings. One sample played last week...