Word: impressively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...view of history is very dim. John Kennedy back in 1961 loaded up the Marines and primed the Navy's airplanes and sent the Seventh Fleet into the South China Sea to hunker near Laos and impress the Communist Pathet Lao, which was gobbling up the country with Moscow's encouragement. The Marines never got into combat, but the display of force helped bring some allies to our side and finally produce a vague standoff in the battle...
...getting-to-know-you session. And they are right to do so. The combination of Reagan's extraordinary charm and political street smarts, which stands him in good stead with allied leaders and helps compensate for his relative innocence in world affairs, would neither interest nor impress Andropov. Personality would not be on the agenda...
...antics, the stage becomes a perpetual playground. The actors swing on ropes, on tree-limbs, on tires, they wear buckets, newspapers or cans as hats, hub caps as shields, they make wooden boards, wired sheets, plastic boards into musical instruments, and much more. While their ingenuity with props would impress any junkman, coupled with the rag-tag costumes they actually complement the patchwork nature of the entire show...
...Meiji unveiled their most ambitious effort to impress the world...
...members to exchange information, engage in long-distance debates or just gossip. The networks are in effect electronic bulletin boards. "They are the 20th century equivalent of the coffeeshops of Samuel Johnson's day," Brand has said. "Back then, the intelligentsia got loaded on coffee and tried to impress themselves. We'll get loaded on technology and do the same thing...