Word: impressively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...edges of the room looked uncomfortable, as though unused to new clothes and strange surroundings. A few looked as though they'd be more comfortable at a student council or 4-H meeting. Others, wearing longish hair, moustaches, wide ties and dress bellbottoms, did what they could to impress the prettier YAF girls...
Harrington's supporters hope to roll up a substantial margin against Phillips to bolster Harrington and impress the Congress and the Nixon Administration with the popularity of Harrington's anti-war, new priorities position...
...this may impress Westerners-until they happen to get sick in Russia. By U.S. standards, many Soviet hospitals are as crowded and shabby as the New York City subway. The typical building is a grim fortress with old equipment in poor repair. The food is plentiful but dull; instead of tissues and toilet paper, the patient makes do with yesterday's Pravda. The institutions are well described by Alexander Solzhenitsyn in his novel, The Cancer Ward. To some patients, though, such hospitals look like paradise. Among them are alcoholics, a major Soviet problem, who can wind up in "corrective...
...complicated, but to our new critics, quite obviously, we were simply ruthlessly and senselessly exploiting the poor and the oppressed. The word "expansion" was then seized on as a slogan and chanted again and again in mindless fashion to confuse and defame, and beyond this, it was hoped, to impress the confused and by doing so to gain increased support...
...Father Daniel Berrigan [Aug. 24] does not impress me. Someone who knowingly and deliberately breaks the law and then tries to evade the consequences of his actions is not a man of principle-he is a vandal. The moral force of his opposition to laws that he considers unjust comes when he accepts the responsibility and the consequences of his actions. As Thoreau stated in Civil Disobedience: "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison...