Word: impressive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Your Fire. Finch is on his way. He writes memos ("concerned only incidentally with its apparent subject"). "The main object of the memo is to impress the people who read it . . ." Other people's memos may be returned unread with a note: "'Mighty clear exposition...
Taft was "Mr. Republican," his following was zealous, experienced and in control of the party machinery. Taft's best chance was to impress wavering delegates with the idea that he could not be stopped at the convention...
...surrealistic," says Dali. One of his paintings, he recalls, showed Lenin with a buttock three meters long, propped up by a crutch. Dali had hoped to shock and impress his fellow surrealists, but they were bored. Dali then turned his artistic attention to Adolf Hitler...
...Boccard's defense did not impress the court. He and Meridiano Director Franco Mario Servello were fined $176 plus costs. The defendants will appeal, but Gina's lawyer crowed: "The court has confirmed that Gina Lollobrigida is an honorable woman...
...Boatner was ready for his big test on Koje Island. He intended to break up the big compounds, and he decided to start with the 6,000 hard-core North Koreans in Compound 76-the gang that engineered the abduction of Brigadier General (now Colonel) Francis T. Dodd. To impress 76's inmates, he staged a rehearsal with tanks and flamethrowers in an empty compound next to theirs. The prisoners answered by digging chest-deep trenches and continuing to turn out steel-tipped spears and other crude weapons on their hidden forge...