Word: impressive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plot itself is lucid. In late nineteenth century Paris a general, his wife, the Countess, and her admirer affably intrigue. A pair of diamond earrings, which precipitates every crisis among them, exchanges hands constantly. Each gentleman strives to impress the Countess, either by giving them to her or by taking them away, until the earrings themselves come to symbolize her love...
Considering the quality of his starting eleven, it should quickly impress its opponent with this attitude. The line has the maturity Jordan seeks, and the ability any coach would welcome...
...regrettable that the Advocate should be at a low ebb in its Registration Issue, when it wants most to impress prospective buyers. Small consolation though it may be to the new subscriber, the latest issue, with the single exception of John Ratte's fine cover portraying his conception of the bowels of the MTA, is below par. The editors have attempted to compensate for the dearth of material with a new art supplement, which is generally a good idea, albeit a third of the collection might well have been omitted...
...when he began his duty as an intern at St. Mary's Hospital in Duluth, life took on a new dimension for Dr. Stapp. "I had only seen pure scientists before, the prima donnas in universities working in their nit-picking ways at academic doodlings to impress each other. Now for the first time I saw science and men of science working as a team, bringing everything to bear-the enormous facilities of the hospital, their own talents and devotion-to the saving of human life...
...raising his voice or even his eyebrows." Said an associate, Physicist Norris Bradbury of Los Alamos: "I never saw him mad." President Quarles walked to work at the base so early that a resident who had never met the boss snorted: "I wonder who he's trying to impress?" Two years ago, taking his $10,000-a-year irrevocable pension from Western Electric, he quit to become Assistant Secretary of Defense in charge of research and development, i.e., the Pentagon's scientific boss...