Word: imprints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...across the country, headlines like these have signaled the sudden rush of a new technology that promises to leave a lasting imprint on the practice of education at Harvard and other universities...
...attempt to shape China into a powerful, modern nation, introduced some of the most daring and far-reaching reforms ever attempted in a Communist country, the winds of change are blowing as strongly as ever. Like Mao Tse-tung before him, Deng, now 80, is trying to imprint his notion of what China should be upon the country before he dies. However, unlike Mao, an eternal revolutionary, Deng is a shrewd pragmatist whose economic reforms have proved popular, at least so far, among a people eager for Western-style prosperity. His policies, aimed at transforming a centrally planned economy into...
...left his imprint on history in 1969 when he became the fourth man to set foot on the moon, and now former Astronaut Alan Bean, 52, is painting almost obsessively in an effort to capture the lunar landscape on canvas. In Houston this month Bean will launch his second one-man show with 15 of his $7,500 acrylic moonscapes. "Frederic Remington and Charles Russell painted the West as it was before it went away forever," he says. "That's kind of what I'm doing. The beginning of the space program will never come again." Bean...
Mondale had not set out in cool calculation to make a choice that would imprint his name on the pages of American political-history books. Nor had the idea of selecting a woman hit him in a flash of inspiration. It had evolved, growing in fits and starts. Mondale's musing about the possibility began last fall when his vaunted political machine seemed on the verge of locking up the nomination almost before the primaries began. Hart's upset victory in the New Hampshire primary in February rudely suspended such thinking, which did not resume in earnest until May. Said...
...many freshmen, a dorm is little more than an address in the Yard Dorms often become close, sometimes remain anonymous, but rarely does a dorm develop enough of a character to have a real imprint on each of its members. Yet despite its many problems, or perhaps because of them. Lionel B residents today still seem to feel just such an imprint Looking back on it now, their words seem to trip over each other, rapid and contradictory, as if welcoming the chance to try to make sense of a year they even yet do not really understand. Most seem...