Word: ingrained
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...struck out in his attempt to ingrain his name in the public mind--something the attributes entirely to his being excluded from key presidential debates and major press coverage...
...Roby's] done a great job in building a teamthat plays very hard," Kuchen said. "We're a youngbasketball team, but we're trying to ingrain thatin most of our sophomores and freshmen...
...compare it to the public pronouncements of the President, and it just doesn't fit." He talked often with Ray Thorn ton and James Mann, sometimes as they walked together to the House floor, and finally decided. "I felt that if we didn't impeach, we'd just ingrain and stamp in our highest office a stan dard of conduct that's just unacceptable...
Alexander Woodside, assistant professor of History, has pointed out in his book Vietnam and the Chinese Model that the nineteenth century Vietnamese bureaucratic code employed repetitiveness to ingrain "a specific written system of political signals" into the mind of the Vietnamese student. Woodside adds, "These written codes were narrow and restricted, in the interests of encouraging predictable behavior. Individual discretion and originality were reduced in the process...
...production could fail to ring the chimes. When she, as the religious and patient Petunia, sings Vernon Duke's "Taking a Chance On Love" and "Cabin in the Sky," life is a different thing. But even she is unable to steal the whole show. Rex Ingrain, whose face and voice will be most recently remembered as that of the Genii in "The Thief of Bagdad," is about as devilishly good as Lucifer, Jr. could be. His be-winged opponent in the contest over Little Joe's destination after death, the Laws's General himself, is sung and acted, with...