Word: impression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impress the U.S. with Soviet "science, technology and culture." the Russians opened a trade fair in Manhattan's Coliseum this week-the first big exhibit of Soviet wares in the U.S. since the 1939 New York World's Fair. The Soviet Union spent more than $10 million on the New York show, which touches on nearly every aspect of Russian life from art and ballet to city planning, and sent their First Deputy Premier Frol Koslov (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) to preside at the opening. The 10,000 exhibits are good, bad and indifferent by U.S. standards; the overall...
However, despite outward manifestations to the contrary, we have not all ceased to care, Pusey contended. He cited the standards of the scholar--"his vision of something beyond the tawdry and broken"--as something that still continues to impress...
...reached indigestible proportions. Day after day last week, the foreign ministers of Russia and the Western powers lectured away at each other (see box), neither side budging an iota from its own plan. For the Western powers, the week of rhetoric had one advantage; it was an opportunity to impress on the world's consciousness the sweep and fairness of their package plan for German reunification and European security (TIME, May 25). But by midweek a fair share of the 120-odd diplomats and diplomatic gun bearers seated around the table in the council chamber were visibly drowsing through...
...months later, reported Bromberger, thinking to impress his chief with the thoroughness of his operation, Wybot marched into the office of the Minister of the Interior with the tapes of the May conversation. The next day he was ousted from his job. De Gaulle's son-in-law declared that Wybot had been "bugging" all of De Gaulle's private conversations for the past 13 years. But what really enraged De Gaulle himself was the fact that Wybot's duties involved only foreign espionage and not internal security; did Wybot therefore consider De Gaulle's patriotism...
Trooping through The Netherlands last week went 78 American tourists whom most European businessmen were particularly anxious to impress. The tourists were all members of the New York Society of Security Analysts on a field trip to see whether European securities are a good buy. Conclusion after touring 37 companies in five countries: definitely but for sophisticated investors...