Word: impressive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Those creeps never had the correct change and always wanted to break a $10 bill to impress their decked-out dates. They could never buy anything without a cryptic comment on how bad it was and they always sat in the aisles giving "go play in the traffic kid" stares when I tried...
...good chance to get to know the applicant's strong points, but a little book at the OGCP with comments from people who've gone the route is full of descriptions in a slightly different tone. The applicants try hard to appear manly by clearly not trying to impress the committee members, and the committee members try to draw applicants out. One disappointed applicant called the result "the most stilted conversation I've ever heard...
Several people who attended a meeting in Waldport, Ore., wonder whether their neighbors who disappeared might have been in "some sort of hypnotic state." The male half of the Two, who always runs the meetings, seems to have a rare ability to impress audiences with the urgency and truth of his message. His gestures too are apparently hypnotic: he is said to tip his head back at regular intervals. Says one witness: "A robot was the only comparison I could make...
...center over the past 16 years, Groth and his colleagues have identified four types of the act: displaced rape (brutalizing of women to strike back at a female in the rapist's past); compensating rape (an attempt to bury insecurities by controlling a woman, and sometimes trying to impress her with sexual prowess during rape); narcissistic rape (self-gratification rather than deep hostility, as in the case of the burglar who rapes a woman who happens to be in the house he robs); and sadistic rape (sexual pleasure comes only from inflicting pain...
...does almost every year at the U.N., Gromyko proposed a sweeping disarmament agreement and repeated a call for a cessation of all nuclear testing. And as usual, his proposals, which seem mainly designed to impress the developing countries, elicited a lot of yawns and a scattering of polite applause. This year Gromyko called for a ban on "new weapons of mass annihilation." Typically, however, his speech contained no hint of how a ban on such weapons would be verified or just what items it would cover-issues that have stymied efforts at international disarmament for more than a decade...