Word: impressively
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...didn't hurt either that Tomes, only an average hoopster, managed to impress the gangsters on the basketball court. "Once, I shot the ball, and it was clearly going left of the basket, but curved and went straight through the net," he says. "God was definitely helping...
...good if students don't know what the equipment is for. Therefore education is equally important as new desks and chairs. First-years in the College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences will receive information pamphlets in their registration packets next fall but just as the administration impresses upon new arrivals not to divulge their e-mail password to anyone, it must also impress upon its students the importance of setting up a proper workstation. One pamphlet among many is easy to ignore...
...than five years before, he had stormed San Juan Heights in Cuba and felt what he described as the "wolf rising in the heart"--that primal lust for victory and power that drives all conquerors. "Our place...is and must be with the nations that have left indelibly their impress on the centuries!" he shouted in San Francisco...
...same time that he terrorized his adversaries, he knew how to please, impress and charm the very interlocutors from whom he wanted support. Diplomats and journalists insist as much on his charm as they do on his temper tantrums. The savior admired by his own as he dragged them into his madness, the Satan and exterminating angel feared and hated by all others, Hitler led his people to a shameful defeat without precedent. That his political and strategic ambitions have created a dividing line in the history of this turbulent and tormented century is undeniable: there is a before...
...playing in eternal rerun, are many new faces, unknown, that remind us how much history is made at the service entrance by people lopped out of the official photographs or working in obscurity to fashion our latest instruments and cures. In a century in which so many tried to impress their monogram on history, often in blood red, the man with the tank--Wang Weilin, or whoever--stands for the forces of the unnamed: the Unknown Soldier of a new Republic of the Image...