Word: impressively
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...advertising business. Even in the best of times, agencies' fortunes depend on their ability to retain fickle clients, who often switch accounts at the slightest whim. Some of the nation's largest agencies have become publicly owned corporations in recent years, and they feel a need to impress both stockholders and watchful clients with steadily rising profits. To do so, more than a dozen firms have ventured into enterprises well beyond the frontiers of advertising...
Revisionist historians have found the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki sinister in another-and less persuasive-way. They see them not so much as the closing acts of the Pacific war but the opening acts of the cold war-intended primarily to impress Stalin. There was a time, indeed, Louis Halle observes in The Cold War as History, when the U.S. had an atomic monopoly and might theoretically have challenged Soviet expansion by interposing a threat of nuclear bombing. Stalin, of course, might have chosen to respond by dispatching the giant Red Army to overrun a then poorly defended Europe...
...fact, French government officials are now speaking of a "Chadization" of this war and present French military plans call for the gradual withdrawal of French troops from Chad through next July. But the official government plan, released this January and bearing Pompidou's impress, calls for increased French aid-in arms, funds, and technical advisors-through...
...adventures of an all-girl rock trio called the Carrie Nations as they slither from one bed to another on the road to fame in Hollywood. The direction by Skin Flick Impresario Russ Meyer (TIME, June 13, 1969) is full of sexual innuendo of the kind that might impress a lickerish Boy Scout. The script, by Chicago Film Critic Roger Ebert, will surely tickle those who prefer their dialogue with comic-book balloons around it. The movie is just a lark-a big camp, don't you see-but many people may not see, and those who do will...
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...