Word: impressment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With that hunk of metal, on display at the International Foundry Fair in Dusseldorf this month, German steelmen aim to impress the world with the rise of their industry. Since 1950, German steel production has increased 76%. In 1954 it surpassed the previous 1938 peak. Last year Germany nosed out Great Britain, became the world's third largest steel producer (after the U.S. and Russia...
...bowler-hatted London bankers trooped solemnly into No. n Downing Street last week, on an unprecedented summons from Chancellor of the Exchequer Macmillan. the liveliest man in the government of Anthony Eden. Urbane Harold Macmillan (who delights in his new Threepenny Opera nickname of "Mack the Knife") wanted to impress on London's top bankers the thin edge on which the British economy now rests...
...outgrow my youth, but my opponents can't outgrow their faults.") Re-elected for a four-year term in 1954 (defeating Browning again in 94 of 95 counties), despite campaign charges-never disproved-that his father was involved in shadowy influence-peddling and kickbacks. Works hard to impress Tennesseans with the fact that his administration is based on clean living, honesty, dawn-to-dusk hard work, Christian fellowship, prayer. Principal accomplishments: mental health program, higher teachers' salaries...
...vigor of St. Laurent's and Pearson's objections seemed almost out of character, since at other conferences (particularly with U.S. diplomats) the Canadians have often argued for a more flexible policy toward Russia. But Pearson explained that the Canadians were merely seizing the opportunity to impress the West's policy on the Asians as forcefully as possible. Said he: "These things must be said−and we Canadians are the only North Americans here to say them...
...Southern leader must grasp the significance of the polls and conversations that show the average man opposed to integration, but nevertheless certain that it is coming. It is time to impress upon the people of the South both the significance, and more important, the inherent dangers of this split...