Word: impressively
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...selfless imitation of Christ could not fail to impress the Tuareg. They called him the Great White Marabout (holy man), and kissed the hem of his robe. But by the middle of World War I, a group of fanatic Moslems, incited by the Turks, had marked him for capture. A native trusted by Abbé de Foucauld decoyed him from the new French fort at Tamanrasset. Grilled by his captors, he prayed in silence, made no resistance, and said only: "Baghi n'mout-This is the hour of my death." Shortly after, his chief captor put a carbine muzzle...
...quite clear, of course, that he's out to impress...
...Professor Furry didn't impress me as an honest witness," Kearney added. "He remembered only those things he wanted to remember." In refusing to answer so many questions. "Furry made a fool of himself," Kearney said...
...time to do any serious development work. Their properties are largely unknown . . . For every company that strikes it rich, literally dozens will fall by the wayside. And for every speculator who makes a fortune, thousands wind up with nothing but worthless stock." But that word of caution could scarcely impress a construction company clerk when the screen reported his stock at $2.45. "I got in at 8?," he said. "I'm just holding...
...shall never use our strength to try to impress upon another people our own cherished political and economic institutions...