Word: impress
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...easy. It's just too easy! It's just too goddamned easy! Oh what the hell, who are we trying to impress...
That push proceeded swiftly and smoothly. On some days, reports spoke hopefully of a near cessation of fighting. In fact, that was an ominous sign: it meant that the NVA was methodically encircling Saigon without encountering much resistance. There was enough fighting, however, to impress Nam Pham, then a college freshman. Every night during that last week of April, he would climb to the roof of his family's house in a Saigon suburb and watch the flashes of bombs and gunfire coming ever closer. Says Pham: "It gave me kind of a weird feeling, watching something you love...
...said, he is inclined to support only the line-item veto and a $16 billion spending cuts package that the Senate passed Thursday night. Senate Minority Leader Richard Gephardt, chosen to respond to Gingrich's speech Friday, added his own pre-emptive strike: "The Republicans will try to impress us with the sheer volume of legislation they've passed, largely in one house of Congress -- as if it's the quantity, not the quality, of legislation that matters," Gephardt said...
...take up residence in the Mir space station, where he will study the effects of lengthy space flight on the human body. Thagard is scheduled to stay aboard Mir for three months, which will be the longest time an American has spent in orbit, but that won't impress Valery Polyakov; the Lou Gehrig of cosmonauts will finally get to leave Mir and return to earth this week after a record-breaking 440 days in space...
...Kate Capshaw, Spielberg's actress wife, had to scurry to a local store for extra table linen. The elegant meal of Chilean sea bass and white wine (except for Katzenberg, who sipped his usual Diet Coke) at the home of the most successful filmmaker in history had to impress Samsung's reclusive chairman Lee Kun Hee, an ardent movie fan with a private library of some 6,000 titles...