Word: impressment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leaders are counting on him to do the most effective work in personal conversations after his return the week after next. Ike's mission in the period between his return and the convention is to corral a few score delegates, not to impress millions of voters. He has to be careful not to arouse the animosity of any large number of voters, but it is too late in the day for increased popular support to help him much with the delegates...
...impress the meaning of words on us," writes Chambers, "the teacher used to draw a column of flowers on the board with colored chalk-a different color for each flower. Opposite each flower was a word. The teacher would point to the word. If you knew it. you were privileged to go to the blackboard and erase the word and the flower. This was called 'picking flowers...
Aside from historical considerations, however, the work itself had a sense of urgency and power conveyed by a style which displayed striking harmonic and rhythmic originality. This great work may not impress audiences as much as it used to in its time since its liturgical associations are no longer widely known. Nevertheless, it was rewarding to hear this performance, which showed the results of painstaking rehearsals. It suffered, though, from faulty intonation in the wind instruments...
...college according to their wishes. In theory, this means that every student, professor, and staff member lives by the grace of others. In practice, it works. While most residents of the college have no trouble, the professor who cannot please his class or the girl who fails to impress the faculty and staff do not last long. The system is run with a gentle hand; otherwise it might assume the nature of an inquisition...
...establishment which is unique in not appealing to that snobbishness in Harvard men which renders them more ludicrous than offensive. Instead it caters to the suppressed aggressions which when provided with channels for outlet turn their bearers into offenders against the order of the community. If you can't impress people by wearing unpadded suits and a bored look says this establishment impress them by shooting disappearing ink at them and shocking them electrically when they are induced to shake hands with you. It cannot be disputed that squirting ink is a quick and inexpensive way of breaking down...