Word: impressment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Faced with the humbling task of challenging the nation's finest. Hulbert lost in three close games in the battle between number one freshmen heavyweights. Penn's McConnell used a perfected combination of quickness and raw power to keep the Crimson ace of balance and impress much of the gallery "She looks like a linebacket," one of the partixan crowd noted of the muscular McConnell...
...grandest accomplishment is an enormous machine that can make ice without benefit of electricity. Once he gets the contraption running, he starts hauling chunks of frozen water to neighboring villages, trying to impress the natives with a tangible example of progress in the tropics. He is messianic about his ice: "It's the beginning of perfection in an imperfect world. It makes sense of work. It's free. It's even pretty. It's civilization." Unfortunately, the machine that churns it out depends on what Allie calls "poison," a highly volatile mixture of hydrogen and enriched...
...simply, most draft proponents are above all concerned with reestablishing American authority abroad. They desperately try to convince themselves that another symbolic weapon will impress upon the Soviets that we mean business. That argument buttressed the draft registration decision, but it is equally misleading in connection with conscription. A draft will not get any Soviet tanks removed from East Germany...
...Chicago Minor Hawks--a team consisting of the best Chicago high school and post-graduate hockey players--came East last week, hoping to impress New England coaches with often-overlooked Midwestern prospects. But it was the Harvard j.v. hockey team that put on the show, outskating and outplaying the Hawks en route to a 5-1 victory...
...last dustup with destiny. Moving and speaking with the languid grace of inherited wealth (his father ran a chemical business), he wooed Audrey Hepburn into maturity in Sabrina and shepherded Gloria Swanson through the gaudy dementia of Sunset Boulevard. His easy sexual authority dared women to try to impress him. One who did, Kim Novak, made film history with Holden: their slow dance in Picnic (1956) remains an electrifying expression of romantic passion. In the '60s, Holden found refuge in the wilds of Kenya, where he supported conservation causes. In Santa Monica to read a movie script, Holden fell...