Word: impactions
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...defense will introduce a battery of witnesses--from men of letters, who will try to establish the book's literary merit and show how conventions and proprieties in modern literature are shifting rapidly, to a psychologist, who may try to give the defense's version of the impact of Miller's erotic realism on readers, average or otherwise. They even plan to bring in an etymologist to discuss Miller's use of what everybody at the trial kept calling "four-letter words...
Every major Revolution polarizes observers into partisans, but it seems a singular power of the Cuban Revolution to excite in its onlookers a deep sense of participation. As the body of literature devoted to Castro's victory grows, more and more books appear implicitly devoted to the impact of the Revolutionary struggle on the author's thought processes and outlook...
...planned impact point was 200 miles east of Bermuda, where an array of ships and aircraft waited anxiously. Down curved MA-4, trailing flames, its simulated astronaut stoically suffering 7.8 Gs of deceleration. The tough 6-ft. drogue chute opened first; then the main chute opened and lowered MA4 gently into the Atlantic, 161 miles east of Bermuda and only 39 miles off target. For a vehicle that had been traveling at 17,519 m.p.h., this was good shooting indeed. Aircraft spotted the capsule at once, and the destroyer Decatur raced to pick...
Much of the story's impact comes from its style. It is a skaz (a tale), a form particularly associated with Leskov, in which the events are told by a fictional narrator in his own idiom and manner. The method gives those events-especially when they are grim-an ingenuous drama, as if a child were holding out a severed head and saying innocently, "Look what I found...
...commission therefore recommended federal assistance: "agricultural aid to depressed areas undergoing change, Small Business Administration loans to help diversify the economy, assistance in training and relocating farm families who are displaced-these and other measures can soften the impact of disturbing economic changes, and in doing so promote the kind of economic climate that encourages better race relations." Concluded the report: "Where poverty exists, liberty is always in peril...