Word: impressively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FOUR heroes is a jerky guy with no sense of the future. He cries with gratitude when the All-American dolt gives him his car to use while the dolt is at college, and then drives around all night with no particular place to go, trying to impress the girls with his nifty new wheels...
...remember every time I went to a new school when I was a little girl, I tried so hard to impress the teacher that I became an "A" student as soon as I possibly could. I learned awfully early that somebody's first impression of you is usually the lasting...
...more ursine feelings these days about Merrill Lynch. With trading volume fading and profits dwindling throughout the securities business, Regan has pared the salaries of Merrill Lynch's 140 highest executives by 10% to 20%. The cuts are expected to save about $900,000 a year and impress the 20,000 other employees with the need for economy...
...howitzer position, imbedded in granite with only its muzzle protruding, the battery commander has choreographed a little ballet to impress visitors from the outside world. His twelve-man squad performs with perfect precision-running, jumping, stamping and shouting-all the while simulating the loading of the big gun. Most of the troops have little opportunity to fire live ammunition, however. Instead, the Nationalists concentrate on "psy-war." They have a high-powered radio station that reaches deep into the mainland. High-altitude balloons intermittently shower propaganda leaflets on the "enemy," with slogans like "Chiang Kai-shek is concerned about...
...Southern Girls is a disappointment from Morris. Admirers of his editing career and his other books (North To ward Home, Yazoo) may not know what to make of it, unless they shrug it off as the indulgence of every man's right to do something silly to impress his girl friend. A few passages- earthy scenes from his heroine's childhood, vignettes of her stumping through a rural state with her Congressman lover-hint at the book that he might have written...