Word: impressively
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attacks. But much of the political sheen had worn off Old Warhorse Browning, 64, whom Clement's forces berated for having "sold out the South" at the 1952 Democratic convention by voting to unseat the Virginia delegation. Clement, still the nation's youngest (34) governor, seemed to impress the voters with his oratorical spellbinding and the record of his first two years in office...
...mind that always went straight to the point without swerving a hair's breadth and never doubted that it was wise enough to teach law to lawyers, science to scientists, and religion to Popes. Most of the letters have a single idea at the back of them-to impress on the recipients the notion that they are living in an age dominated by a "new spirit"-Napoleon himself. Anything, no matter how trifling, that weakens this impression is automatically condemned; anything that strengthens it, no matter how falsely, is automatically encouraged...
That his sculptures were being admired in far-off England did not impress him as much as the prestige they brought him at home. For primitive man needs praise as much as the urban intellectual. Sam's priceless reward was seeing the revulsion in a native woman's face at sight of him change to admiration when she saw his carvings. To Bachelor Sam she whispered: "Ah, but you are clever...
...impress the Asiatics, nine misguided political appointees have decided to change the way of life of 50 million Americans in 21 states of our great nation. If we red-blooded Southern Americans submit to this unconstitutional ''judge-made law" and surrender our Caucasian heritage of 60 centuries, the malignant powers of Communism, atheism and mongrelization will surely follow...
...decided to give music up to become a priest, a Paulist like his idol, Father Finn. "I had the idea of becoming a priest from a small boy," he says. Manhattan helped."I used to float around with a lot of theatrical people, and they didn't impress me very much." Instead of depriving him of his music, the church gave it back...