Word: imprints
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...unwavering in her principles." Elected to the House in 1972 as the first African-American in Congress from the south since Reconstruction, Jordan was such a commanding political presence that she was mentioned by some Democratic party activists as a possible vice-presidential candidate. "She left a powerful imprint on Washington," says Angelo. "Which was all the more remarkable because she was only there for six years." Jordan left Congress in 1978 and devoted the rest of her life to public service and teaching at the University of Texas...
This heightened ambition instills in Harvard students a academic mind-frame, distinct from that of their Ivy League rivals, which leaves its imprint upon the scholastic air pervading each school's campus. The individuals comprising the Harvard community serve to create an atmosphere of academic excellence second to none. Surrounded by some of the best minds in the world, one cannot help but grow intellectually and culturally...
...time you saw a goalie record a .000 save percentage for an entire period? It happened last night, because Tracy faced two tough chances in the second period and "got overly aggressive," in his words, on each of them, which is what happens when you try to stamp your imprint on a game that has been played entirely in the other...
...girl from the wrong party; boy loses girl to rival presidential campaign; and, after the election, boy and girl reconcile and marry. It's Romeo and Juliet, His Girl Friday and Adam's Rib, with Bill Clinton and George Bush in supporting roles. With two publishing giants sharing the imprint, the hype machine for this joint memoir by Mary Matalin and James Carville is racing on overdrive: a love story for the ages set against the drama of the 1992 campaign. But if romance is your primary reason for reading All's Fair: Love, War, and Running for President (Random...
Donna Reed performed in a few good films, including From Here to Eternity, in which she played a prostitute (and won an Oscar). In 1958, however, she became Everywife in her own TV series, the epitome of suburban domesticity. So firmly did she imprint that character that she was forever unable to convincingly play anyone except the cheerful wife and mother who left no spots on the glasses or her children's psyches. By the time Reed tried to inhabit the skin of Miss Ellie in Dallas, it was impossible to believe that she could have brought forth a lout...