Word: impression
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Guest after guest rose at the luncheon to challenge the viability of this approach in a campaign. The war must be attacked, they asserted, on economic grounds. McCarthy must capitalize on general anti-Johnson feeling and on other issues besides the war. This line of questioning seemed to impress McCarthy. He acknowledged that a one-issue campaign would fail and agreed on the need to raise more issues. But even though McCarthy may attack the war on a variety of grounds, the moral issue will always be foremost in his mind...
This avowal of objectivity did not impress the Boston Globe--a longtime supporter of the Belt--which next day editorialized against the study and called for the building of the Belt. The paper noted that both Moynihan and Nash had last spring led a group of 528 Harvard and M.I.T. faculty members calling for a restudy of the Inner Belt and other transportation plans for the metropolitan Boston area...
During the course of Saturday night it became clear that most of the demonstrators were willing to risk injury and imprisonment because they wanted to impress the Government, the world, and themselves with the depth of their conviction that the U.S. must get out of Vietnam. They had to prove that they weren't fair-weather protestors, that there were front-line casualties in the anti-war as well as in the war, and that they were not the cowards many of the less subtle pro-war advocates accuse them of being...
Linkletter attributed his success to his ability to "impress somebody--stun them." "All the things you are doing in class on paper," he added, "I did with money...
...ranked Bruins squeaked past Penn State 17-15 for their fourth straight victory of 1967. Such heart-stopping heroics have become so commonplace that Coach Prothro admits to a certain ennui: "I've gotten to where I expect so much from Gary that he doesn't impress me any more...