Word: impressment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said Dean Acheson, representing the U.S. at his last big international conference. Without admitting it, the 42 ministers abandoned the goals set in their famed Lisbon Conference last February, shrugging off their talk of 70 divisions by 1953 as mere "window dressing" designed at the time to impress the U.S. Congress. The ministers cut in half the soldiers' urgent request for $420 million to continue construction of NATO airfields, radar network and jet-fuel pipelines. And although all NATO nations were pledged in advance to increase their arms budgets in 1953, the ministers avoided setting targets which they might...
...face an enemy whom we cannot hope to impress by words, however eloquent, but only by deeds-executed under circumstances of our own choosing...
...scouts. In dutiful obedience to their captors, the boys help them capture a whole trainload of military equipment. Delighted, General Wu sends the boys home by the only safe route - a 3,000-mile detour through the Gobi Desert. On their tremendous journey they have adventures enough to impress Tom Sawyer: a Living Buddha trusts them with a secret message, a great bandit prince bows down to do them reverence, a buried treasure opens to their shovels in a ruined city. The story never rips & snorts; it moves with the pace of a desert caravan. But in its freshness...
...impress the government with the seriousness of their calling, they voted ?10,000 to set up a medical school in Johannesburg-to help "weed out the quacks and illiterates from among the medicine men," as Somo put it. The school will be in a two-story building, with shops for witch doctors and herbal-I ists on the ground floor. In its syllabus will be a course in "throwing the bones" -a method of diagnosis in which four-inch pieces of ivory or ox bone are dropped on a sanded floor...
...Crimson's 26 to 19 victory over Dartmouth Saturday failed to impress New England sports authorities who again ranked the Crimson fifth among the larger New England colleges in their weekly poll...