Word: impressment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...editor has made an observation which cannot pass unchallenged. The excellent Jan. 28 review of Room for One More [refers to] the conducting of an Eagle Scout badge-award ceremony with "the solemnity of a coronation" . . . The pomp and circumstance connected with such an award is not designed to impress cynical and worldly-wise adults, but, rather, is centered on the boy himself. The award of Eagle rank is the highest honor that scouting can bestow . . . Parents may prod, and leaders may coax, but the boy himself must do the work . . . After a formidable array of obstacles has been surmounted...
...same day, Churchill's government took a step meant to impress, not the tailor, but the world's traders. It relaxed some of the government's tight controls over foreign exchange transactions. A Treasury bulletin announced that henceforth private traders will be allowed to buy & sell foreign currencies in the open market instead of through the state-owned Bank of England. This does not mean that Britain is about to set the pound sterling free to find its own level in world markets, as the U.S. has long urged. The official price of a pound sterling will...
...friend." She heard much of the talk about the Washington clique, she said, and often heard Mr. Nathan mention the name of Theron Caudle (who was fired last month as head of the Justice Department's tax division-TIME, Nov. 26). Mr. Nathan did this, she said, "to impress me with the fact that the Nathans were such good friends of such an affluent person in the Government...
...would absorb simple observations of the stars and compute a ship's position without any figuring at all. The job was not simple; many men, including the ancient Greeks, had tried it and failed. But six years ago, Zerbee worked out a method that was good enough to impress a retired naval officer whom he met in Florida. Three years later Zerbee had completed a crude model that would find the position of his Estero Island cottage on the map with an error of only seven miles...
Tito himself was busy being friendly with visiting Americans, and hoping thereby to impress Stalin that any aggression against Yugoslavia might be the spark for World War III. W. Averell Harriman, on his way home from Iran, stopped over at Belgrade. He and Tito agreed, said Harriman in the purposefully indirect words of diplomacy, that a principal danger of war would come from the possible miscalculation by the Kremlin of the West's reaction to local aggression...