Word: impressive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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British Military Intelligence in Singapore admitted, both to Brown and to a representative of the Ministry of Information, that the "pessimistic" tone of his broadcasts had been justified by the facts; also that the broadcasts had served to impress the U.S. with Singapore's predicament. Then why keep...
Nobody planned Saburo Kurusu's trip to impress him. But there is now no way to cross the U.S.-except on foot through the woods, or on a dark night above the clouds-and not see signs of U.S. arms, signs of U.S. strength. Kurusu flew southward over United's crow line, over California's infinitely fertile farmlands, over forests of oil derricks, in fields which alone produce many times as much oil as Japan consumes. Around them lay the exotic square miles of California, in itself almost twice as big as the mainland of Japan...
...placed, aided as he is by the long experience and contacts of Miss Baldwin and Mrs. Barnes. To them falls the added task of seeing that the students get to the interviews on time, bolstered with a bit of philosophical and psychological etiquette on how to greet and impress possible bosses. If they don't get the job, they try again...
Bent on turning out 100 pairs of trained eyes for the Army every five weeks until further notice, tall Colonel Stanton T. Smith, boss of the observers' school, has tried hard to impress his students with the importance of their jobs, to inject a little glamor into the skull-dragging drudgery of observers' work...
...exciting, terrifying, hilarious, gagging, slightly sanctimonious, good for their souls. Confesses Gauvreau: "I was a part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest to make money they don't want to buy things they don't need to impress people they dislike." Better reading than Gauvreau's penitent philosophies are anecdotes of his colleagues. Samples...