Word: impressionable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"My impression is that this wasn't the most sophisticated group in the world," he said.
Doing a mean impression of Bourbeau's on-his-stomach goal against the Soviets in the 1988 Winter Olympics, Howley managed to fling the puck past Menges while he fell to the ice with 6:57 into the second period. Harvard led, 4-0, and Howley's quest for a...
On election day, voters in several precinctsplaced stickers bearing Graham's name overThompson's name in the ballot book, a part of thevoting machine itself. Thomure has charged that,as a result, voters might have voted for Thompsonunder the impression that they were voting forGraham.
Her remarkable feat is to make audiences believe at once in this woman's intelligence and her ultimate helplessness, so that they view her as her son does: with affection and even admiration despite her frustrating fecklessness, her fumbling of life's every chance. From the first scene, when she...
Throughout most of his career, John Cheever labored amid the general impression that he was, at best, a minor writer. After all, his specialty was short stories. Never mind that they were clear, sparkling and frequently unforgettable; most of them appeared in The New Yorker and could be dismissed by...