Word: impactions
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...Eugene Nickerson, 47, chief executive of Long Island's populous Nassau County, promises-with phrases and gestures borrowed from John Kennedy -to make New York "first" again, but to date has made little impact beyond his own bailiwick...
...ruling comes in time for the spring primaries, and initially will have its most significant impact in Alabama, where thousands of Negroes registered under the Voting Rights Act of 1965 have not paid the poll tax in anticipation of the court's ruling. Basing its decision on the "equal protection" clause of the 14th Amendment, the court declared that wealth "has no relation to voting qualifications. The right to vote is too precious, too fundamental to be so burdened or conditioned...
This sort of slam hasn't had much impact in the Yard among any 97 pound weaklings in Group I. But a few lads have ventured down to the Radcliffe Quad to find out just how good these girls are. Miss Mary Paget, Coordinator of Recreational Activities, encourages this by organizing all kinds of co-ed competitions...
Shields was thrown outside the ear by the impact of the collision...
Because Advocate writers have imitated all of literati for the past hunters, Culler has tried to tell the magazine's history by tracing the impact of literary innovations on undergraduate writers. This kind of literary history is absurd, because, although Harvard undergraduates are imitative, they are not au courant. Usually the Advocate was reactionary and rejected new kinds of expression until they had received world approbation. The Advocate ignored Eliot, Pound, and Cummings until 1930, considering itself "the heroic defender of an unchanging literary standard." It's just now warming up to Ginsberg and the Dionysion-Apollonian poetry squabble...