Word: impressively
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...second purpose of the March for Freedom is to impress upon Washington the danger to the national health posed by the current unemployment rate, which is especially high among Negroes. Negroes usually suffer an unemployment rate twice that of whites...
Kitten & Linguist. But Hollywood could never make her into one of its once numerous mannikins, because she has too much of a head start. She is a bright, fast-moving girl with a mind of her own. Being a star does not impress her. "I want to be a good actress," she says. "The word star is flexible." Beyond German, she speaks Spanish, Italian, French and English, and is an established star in the French, German and Italian cinema. In the parts that have built her fame, she has almost invariably been a sex kitten ever ready to sleep with...
...secret. The small army of researchers who analyze, appeal to, and reckon with children say that the 40 million Americans aged two to twelve strongly influence the spending of one consumer dollar in seven, and affect family purchases of everything from cars to soap. "Once children become impressed," sighs a Chicago advertising executive, "they are very successful naggers." Buy Me a Mushroom. To impress its Esso trademark on the youngsters, Humble Oil mails out thousands of bird houses, coloring books and popsicle molds among its "gifts of the month." Norge stimulated appliance sales by offering a free children...
...children that automakers often direct their advertising campaigns: one Ford station-wagon commercial piles a parcel of kids into a wagon to impress on youthful viewers that in a Ford the whole gang can go with togetherness...
...fight by using their minds rather than their feet. But this approach was decided upon only after profound disagreements among the members, many of whom had helped form Tocsin because they thought the Harvard chapter of SANE was insufficiently militant. Goldmark's emphasis on technically precise arguments designed to impress the policy-makers conflicted sharply with the Peaceniks' desire to "demonstrate" their concern. One early member recalls that only the membership's respect for Goldmark convinced them to accept his arguments...