Word: impressment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ramsay MacDonald: "Curious bird. He had a kind of Highland aloofness. You never quite knew where he was. Always rather apt to impress on you the whole burden of the world...
...thought should be done. Just out of the hospital, Secretary Dulles-who carries the U.S. State Department in his hat-took along position papers to study on the plane that bore him to Paris. Britain's Selwyn Lloyd saw a chance, in Germany's difficulties, to impress on the West Germans that British exclusion from Europe's Common Market is quite as important in British eyes as the Berlin crisis. On Berlin itself, the British argued that instead of rejecting the Soviet ultimatum outright, the West should counter by proposing a summit talk to discuss other matters...
...wise surgeon," warned a wise 13th century surgeon, "will refrain from stealing while he is in attendance on a patient." Other maxims for medieval physicians, who found Hippocrates rather hoary: impress the patient by diagnosing his condition before examination, always tell relatives the case is very grave, assume that a fast pulse only means worry over your fee. Last week British physicians were chuckling over dozens of such memories, recalled in Call the Doctor, by Ernest S. Turner, a frequent Punch contributor whose previous social histories have deflated the egos of British reformers, admen and Blimps...
...popular belief, there is an operating Christian Church in China. But there has been a great breach between the missions of the China mainland and the West. Newbigin hoped that an attempt will be made to heal this breach, rather than to send more missionaries from the West to impress Western viewpoints upon China...
...looking at a screen, but what you're seeing is the stage production done by the Shakepearian Festival Players in Stratford, Ontario, under the direction of Tyrone Guthrie. Otherwise, the narrow confines of the stage, the incessant shouting of the actors, and the occasionally excessive posturing needed to impress the last rows of the balcony, will prove annoying. If you want to, it's also easy to laugh at the formal gestures, fantastic masks, and chanted choruses taken over from the ancient theatre...