Word: impressive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cloth jumpsuit. And where the old racketeers had bodyguards with pug noses and club-steak ears, this fellow hires a turtleneck-wearing glamour boy (John Considine) who might just as well be Lyle Waggoner. What's more, these contemporary villains have lost all sense of decorum. They try to impress by breaking coke bottles across their mistresses' faces (the gangster in The Long Goodbye) or they think that to frisk an old man you have to work the ulceric guy over in the midriff and bloody his nose by grinding it into the wood paneling...
...close Vance aide: "He wants to press them for the limits of their positions." In addition, this week's journey gives Vance a chance, as a senior State Department official puts it, "to get to know the players involved, invite them to Washington to meet the President and impress on them our commitment to get something done." Perhaps more than anything else, this trip confirms that Arabs and Israelis alike still view Washington as the only power-broker capable of finding a peace settlement. Thus no more than polite attention was accorded U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim during...
What is bound to impress Carter are the irrefutable signs of mushrooming Soviet military muscle. Recent testimony before congressional committees, the report by Senators Sam Nunn and Dewey Bartlett cataloguing NATO's weaknesses, and statements by West European leaders have all sounded that alarm. Exactly how much the Soviets are spending is a question that has long bedeviled the West. To begin with, the published Soviet military budget is far from a reliable guide. In addition, the Soviet Union's centralized "command" economy can order factories to sell military arms and equipment at artificially low prices. Thus even...
...black-lung disease and the continuing mine disasters do not impress anyone, the ever increasing oil tanker spills [Jan. 10] have established themselves as a great environmental tragedy. Sooner or later we have to realize that under well-controlled conditions, atomic fuel is environmentally the most acceptable source of energy today. Any further reliance on the present "supertanker mentality" is not only dangerous to the environment but, from the national security standpoint, foolhardy. James Scott, M.D. Streator...
...drinking fountain--even in a public building. These signs bolted the door to the new and well-equipped schools near Martin King's home, and denied him a seat on the yellow bus that carried the white children to those schools. Those signs were calculated to effectively impress upon the mind of every Black person that he and she had been meticulously read out of the Declaration of Independence and reduced to three-fifths of a person (and then only for the voting privileges of white people) by the framers and adopters of the Constitution of the United States...