Word: impressively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gallons of manure over somebody, he will smell," Molden said, "and then you can say that he stinks." Scheide argued that the case against Waldheim has dwindled to charges that he knew of Nazi atrocities. "Of course he knew," Scheide conceded. "So did everyone else." Such arguments did not impress the Justice Department, which last year barred Waldheim from entering the U.S. under a law aimed at undesirable aliens...
...knew that better than FBI Undercover Agent Joseph D. Pistone as he sat with Lefty, his Mafia chief and partner, in Nathan's in Miami Beach one morning in 1980. Several months before, Pistone had borrowed a white yacht from a fellow agent for an oceangoing party to impress Lefty and his Mafia pals. A girlfriend's rich brother had provided the boat, Pistone explained. Now an unhappy Lefty was looking at a page of TIME with a picture of the very same yacht: it had been used by the FBI in the Abscam scandal to help catch several crooked...
...explaining that American politicians called that "working the crowds." Gorbachev laughed and won Reagan's hearty endorsement of his observation that leaders learned more when traveling in the provinces than in their own capitals. There was unintended irony in Gorbachev's remark, since for all his efforts to impress his views on Americans during this trip, he had shown little interest in learning about the country itself...
With a new crop of freshmen eager and ready to impress, Coach Frank Haggerty looks forward to the upcoming season. Led by Co-Captains James Russell and Paul Mayer, the men's team, is "aiming at improvement" and hopes to "move back up" the ranks of collegiate track and field, Haggerty said...
...Minister Kim Jong Pil, a conservative long shot. Warned the Seoul Dong-A Ilbo, an influential paper: "The two must remember that a split in the opposition party means the breakup of power, resulting in self- destruction, for which both must assume political responsibility." The admonition, however, failed to impress the two Kims last week as they waged their campaigns, each confident that he will prevail once the ballots are counted...