Word: impressively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twelve years, at the beginning of each new session of Congress, Pennsylvania's Republican Representative Carroll Kearns has methodically offered a resolution demanding that a congressional delegation be dispatched to recount the gold buried at Fort Knox. The resolution was what Congressmen call "constituent bait," designed solely to impress Daughters of the American Revolution, who are powerful in Kearns's home district. Year after year the Kearns resolution and dozens of similar motions have been ignored by the House Rules Committee and allowed to die decently-as the authors expected. But last week, to the surprise of Carroll...
...still in Germany in the early 19405, Rocket Expert Wernher von Braun realized the possibility of producing satellites and saw plainly that they would have enormous propaganda value. When he came to the U.S. in 1945, he pleaded for "an American star, rising in the west" to impress the world. U.S. space enthusiasts took up his cry, but the U.S. Government was slow to give support...
...Honey Fitz, the President of the U.S. and the Prime Minister of Great Britain talked earnestly. Their styles differed: John Kennedy spoke briskly, changing the subject whenever the conversation began to lag, while Harold Macmillan preferred a chattier, more leisurely pace. Their aims differed too: Kennedy was anxious to impress Macmillan with his ability to lead not only the U.S. but the free world; Macmillan was eager to convince Kennedy of Britain's value as an honest broker in the cold war. From time to time, aides issued dutiful announcements: Kennedy and Macmillan had become "very friendly" and were...
...call the Pathet Lao off and accept the U.S. offer of a neutral Laos. Even such a seeming Soviet retreat would hold strong prospects of future profit. By accepting the Western proposal for a 14-nation peace conference, which would include Red China. Moscow would win the opportunity to impress upon Peking that it was through Soviet efforts that China had won a place at the bargaining table...
...Anouilh by Edward Owen Marsh), though early and playful Anouilh, has all his earmarks and tooth marks, his jarring flavors, his jolting banter, his cactus-spined nonsense. It is also as often wordy as witty, and wayward as skillful. In a very jaunty first act. a young man-to impress a young lady-rents a house and hires himself two parents and an old family retainer. Then it turns out that he already has a wife, whose wealth keeps his real parents and his mistress and her husband in luxurious idleness. Soon these shoddy-chic cadgers, the pure, unworldly young...