Word: impressment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after four days of indoor practice, how does the squad impress him? "Fat," be said. "But not for long...
Thirteen labor bosses, including C.I.O.'s Phil Murray, James Carey, Walter Reuther, A.F.L.'s William Green, George Meany and Dan Tracy, walked out of the mobilization program. They were admittedly acting mainly for dramatic effect. "In no other way," said labor, "can we effectively impress upon the American people the great wrongs being perpetrated." The only labor leader left in an advisory capacity: John L. Lewis, quietly smirking and, like Tar-Baby, saying nothin...
...there is nothing earth-shaking about the Hanson family, there is nothing inconsequential either. The scripts, by Writer Frank Gabrielson, are often toughly realistic. Son Nels (Dick Van Patten), pushed too hard by family pride, is shown cheating in an exam for grades to impress his parents. Mama herself, expertly played by Actress Peggy Wood, is human enough to get in a temper just because she's having a bad day. Earnest, bumbling father Lars (Judson Laire), who often wears his head, as well as his heart, on his sleeve, can be as calamitously wrong in business as over...
...that socially adjusted lawbreakers respect this tradition, but one amateurish criminal upstart (Dirk Bogarde) loses his head and plugs the picture's most likable bobby (Jack Warner). The courage of the unarmed police closing in on the gun-toting killer invites both admiration and suspense. What should most impress U.S. fans, however, is the reaction of London gangland's staunch conservatives: well aware that shooting a bobby simply isn't done, they help the police to hunt down their...
Editor Waldrop didn't have much of a point. In World War II, censors snipped out violations of security. But they sent along letters telling of just such incredible exploits, although they were often aware that they came from rear-echelon soldiers trying to impress the folks back home. The armed forces called such letters "snow jobs," (i.e., piling it on), and most newspapers checked such letters before printing them. In failing to do so, the Times-Herald got trapped in the snow...