Word: impactions
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...explosions as all four tires on the right landing gear blew out. The big jet skidded wildly across the field for another 300 yds. Then it struck a parked truck and smashed into the unyielding, 30-in.-high concrete shoulder of a jet taxiway still under construction. The tremendous impact ripped loose the engines and landing gear. Orange flames crackled along the plane's left side and swept toward the rear...
...about becoming a celebrity? "I am still an ordinary mortal. My gold star, Hero of the Soviet Union medal, bears the number 11,175. That means 11,174 people accomplished something very notable before me." Before the mob scene was over, a dozen women had swooned under the combined impact of the crush and Yuri's sex appeal...
...years ago Cambodia's Prince Sihanouk himself opened the 132-mile Khmer-American Friendship Highway connecting the capital, Pnompenh, with the sea. Built by U.S. engineers and costing $34 million, it was billed as a yardstick of U.S. know-how, "the most conspicuous impact project" of U.S. aid to Cambodia, which has totaled almost $300 million since 1955. Last week the highway had impact aplenty-but the wrong kind...
...this could not damage the work he had already done or lessen his world impact, which was, and is, incalculable...
...love of nature and the vernacular, together with a kind of barefoot male camaraderie, linked him fraternally with Mark Twain and Huckleberry Finn. Hemingway was the first of the '205 expatriates to knock on Gertrude Stein's door, and he learned the most. She taught him the impact of simple repetition and the rhythm of words...