Word: impressment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fact was that Bourguiba's tough talk seemed primarily designed to impress his countrymen. Having unwisely led his people to assume that all French forces would be out of Tunisia by March 20, Bourguiba now apparently felt obliged to make a dramatic gesture to direct popular attention from the fact that the French have not budged. But scarcely had he delivered his face-saving blast when Tunisian diplomats in Washington hustled around to the State Department to explain that his speech did not really mean what it seemed to mean...
...often to a height of five or six feet, the commissioners do not have time to read all or even most of it. Lawyers often take advantage of the commissioners' presence to draw out the hearings even further by making grandstand plays. Says one lawyer: "We have to impress them with the shock treatment. Our thoughtful arguments are not going to get detailed consideration anyway...
...being "a little bright-eyed about it all." In a New Year's message delivered in the form of leaflets scattered through Nicosia's streets, EOKA Leader Colonel Grivas broke his month-long silence to warn that the "spectacular shows" of the new Foot regime did not impress him. "On the contrary, I consider them traps. I am awaiting deeds...
...League basketball activity over the weekend, Yale suffered its fifth consecutive defeat at the hands of Dartmouth, and Princeton continued to impress onlookers as the "team to beat...
...debt, plus $1,000 for the tuition had paid and $16 for legal expenses. Speaking for the college, Dean Lawrence Chamberlain said that wisdom is only "a hoped-for end product of education," and that neither Columbia nor any other institution could teach it. But that argument did not impress embattled Jacobsen one bit. After all, with two other students, he is now learning wisdom, truth, understanding, etc., at a special school in Long Valley called Gurukula (home of the philosopher)-a school, he told reporters, that is very much like Plato's Academy. The Plato of the place...