Word: impressively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Destined to leave their impress, rather than to receive one, they build up in the secrecy of their inner life the structure of their feelings, of their ideas, of their will...
...Senate staged a stately little theatrical as rigid and rehearsed as a minuet. Designed to impress 1944 voters, the production played five matinees to half-filled galleries...
...find Tarawa the work of a crack reporter, the most vivid book on the Pacific war since Ira Wolfert's Torpedo 8. Many will find it stomach-turning in its horrifying depiction of battle. That was Author Sherrod's prime objective: "Our information services [have] failed to impress the people with the hard facts of war. . . . There is no easy way to win. . . . [There will] be many other bigger and bloodier Tarawas...
...Statesman Baruch, whose political philosophy is a good deal closer to Old School Democrat George's than to Franklin Roosevelt's. Throughout his report Baruch had repeatedly cautioned the U.S. against divisive pressure-group politics. He had labored valiantly to present a set of policies that would impress Congress and the nation without depressing the President, to whom his report was of necessity addressed. But he forgot the one great issue that transcends all others in 1944 Washington, D.C. Implacably Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg blurted it out at week's end: "It would be very tragic...
...storm on top of the other. We were able to accumulate quite a few hundred dollars in snow money with which I was able to pay off the debt to the doctor. Then of course, little odds and ends came -the boy, et cetera, et cetera. I want to impress you gentlemen that I haven't been able to replace one piece of furniture that I bought since I married. I had to turn my bed over to my children because it's too weak to hold me and my wife. We had to wire the legs together...