Word: impressment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exceptionally smart kid, but he took few things seriously. He was in rare form the day we took the Scholastic Aptitude Test. The Proctor gave us a five-minute break between sections, but Ike stayed in the hall for 15 minutes. He took the test again and managed to impress the admissions people at Rice...
...totally forgotten men and women whose literary bones I disturbed after they had slumbered peacefully for some two hundred years..." In a sense, Lonsdale has no business indulging in such heroic exhuming. Although the minor poems he has uncovered are valuable for historical documentation, they cannot hope to impress in the manner of Pope's heroic couplets or Johnson's manly verse. Yet literature never adapts itself to such hierarchical thinking, and one of the virtues of Lonsdale's book is that it is broad enough to grant the reader his or her whims. Taste can be a most esoteric...
Zapp is not alone in desiring this prize; he and other contenders keep meeting at academic conferences and trying to upstage one another. The man they must impress is Arthur Kingfisher, "doyen of the international community of literary theorists," whose approval will bring the award. Unfortunately, the Fisher King is filled with despair "at no longer being able to achieve an erection or an original thought...
Instead, Bok wrote to Jackson that individuals should work nationally to impress their views upon their elected representatives. "I hope that we can unite in supporting Congressional initiatives in Washington" to impose various economic sanctions or the South African regime...
Should Cooney pick up the pace of his curious career and decide he would like to improve on the 13 rounds they fought in 1982, Holmes would be pleased. "But I don't think he's coming back, do you? Deep down inside, Cooney really don't impress himself." By this standard, Holmes is fulfilled. "As a boxer, you got to put me up there with all of the top three," he figures, "Marciano, Louis and Muhammad Ali. I just didn't have the charisma. If Ali came in here now (Holmes is speaking in a restaurant), right away...