Word: impressively
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...forestry degree from the University of the South in 1956, then "just took off" to thumb and hike his way through much of Africa, Asia and Europe for four years. He used a beard, a bit of French and a cast-iron stomach to impress African tribesmen, figures he already knows the secret of getting along in Tanganyika (which he visited): "They accept you if you sit down and eat with them." Fond of Africans and their wildlife, he would like to make the corps a career...
...their complaints, it is the tippers themselves who perpetuate the custom, not because it really gains them better service but because it gives them a certain sense of power and comfort. Every headwaiter in the country knows that a man with a girl whom he wants to impress is an easy mark. Women, who in general are notorious mossbacks, often wildly overtip their personal hairdressers, whom they want to keep happy as their confidants, part-time analysts, gossipmongers and flatterers...
...enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be, and it is hereby made the duty of the President, Professors and Tutors of the University at Cambridge, Preceptors and Teachers of Academies, and all other instructors of youth, to take diligent care, and to exert their best endeavours, to impress on the minds of children and youth committed to their care and instruction, the principles of piety, justice and a sacred regard to truth, love to their country, humanity and universal benevolence, sobriety, industry and frugality, chastity; moderation and temperance, and those other virtues which are the ornament of human...
...finally, when word came that Alan Shepard was alive and apparently healthy, the President sighed with relief, smiled, and said: "It's a success.'' That the U.S. had been willing and confident enough to attempt the flight in public view was a fact that could only impress the world. Wrote London's Daily Telegraph, in apt summation of the gamble's payoff: "Technically, the Americans were runners-up. Morally, the cup is theirs. Nobody can doubt that Commander Shepard really...
...twelve years, at the beginning of each new session of Congress, Pennsylvania's Republican Representative Carroll Kearns has methodically offered a resolution demanding that a congressional delegation be dispatched to recount the gold buried at Fort Knox. The resolution was what Congressmen call "constituent bait," designed solely to impress Daughters of the American Revolution, who are powerful in Kearns's home district. Year after year the Kearns resolution and dozens of similar motions have been ignored by the House Rules Committee and allowed to die decently-as the authors expected. But last week, to the surprise of Carroll...