Word: impression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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King, a media renaissance man who boasts that he will be the first non-college graduate to speak at the forum, said yesterday that he will not hire a spechwriter or pull out his thesaurus to look for big words to impress his Ivy League audience...
...identify some cutting issues for next year's campaign. Instead, the friend suggested that Bush go alone to Camp David for a few days to figure out where he wanted to take the country. "Oh," said Bush in clear exasperation, "the vision thing." The friend's advice did not impress...
Such women served Khashoggi's purposes in other ways. In the 1970s Khashoggi spent much time and money recruiting the "escorts" hired by the Shah, in order to get information about the Iranian's military plans. "The Shah was timid with women," Khashoggi says, "and liked to impress them by telling them exciting secrets." Khashoggi himself coached the women on how to guide the conversation to areas of particular interest. "They always came back with valuable intelligence," he says with a smile...
...second wife, Lamia, have a son Ali, 7, who lives most of the time at their house in Cannes. Although he considers himself a traditional disciplinarian and keeps his children on a budget, they do have fringe benefits: the older boys have been known to impress their dates with a tour of the family plane...
...food and desires to impress members of the opposite sex were cited by some as among factors that motivated students to take to the streets. No doubt, on the margin, both factors could have played a role. But they cannot constitute even partially sufficient--not to mention necessary--explanation. Without much better information than those quoted in the piece, I venture two reasons to reject this explanation...