Word: impressively
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nonetheless, for most of the women who had come from far corners of the earth to express their solidarity, even a damp sojourn under a heavy official hand proved exhilarating. If Clinton did not impress a delegate, perhaps Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto did, or Burmese dissident Aung San Suu Kyi, who appeared in a specially recorded videotape that was smuggled out of Rangoon...
...quickly learned, though, that not all buildings on campus have these amenities. One of the orientation week tests was on the second floor of Harvard Hall, and I got to impress my new classmates with my ability at stair climbing--on my bottom...
...that doesn't impress U.S. Republicans. The party's international-elections monitoring arm pronounced the polling a disaster a day before it started, declaring that it failed to meet "minimally accepted standards." In Washington, Jesse Helms, head of the Senate Foreign Relations committee, decried the $235 million Clinton has pledged to Haiti for 1995 and said, "It's time for the President and his advisers to stop playing beach-blanket bingo with Aristide." Helms also said that his committee would soon hold hearings examining the "countless irregular activities...
...first year I realized who I wasn't and whatI didn't want to be. There are so may amazingpeople you'll meet (though don't be disillusionedwhen you meet many who don't impress you--it'sonly a college, not a deity convention, after all)that you might be tempted to want to be like a lotof them. Secretly, most likely, a lot of them willwant to be like...
Generally, the first episode of the orientationweek placement test series is the famousExpository Writing Test, in which first yearsstruggle to recall their admissions essays, whichmust have impressed someone over at Byerly Hall.Now they must once again impress someone--thistime in the Expos Department--so that they can getinto a decent semester-long writing class andavoid Expos 10, the year-long alternative for theless prosaically-inclined...