Word: impactions
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...mound. Pitcher Mike Hanes. 10, wound up and threw a soft, slow curve. As Barry turned to swing, the ball hit him on the chest. The youngster dropped his bat, staggered backward, collapsed in the arms of Umpire Al Millham. and died. Improbably, the mild impact had stopped Barry's heart. Pitcher Hanes collapsed in hysterics. But like so many Little League parents, grief-stricken Jack Babcock showed a stubborn concern for the game. "I hope this doesn't curtail Little League ball," said Babcock. "Barry wouldn't want that. He loved baseball more than anything...
...last 40 years, he said, the traditional social patterns have begun to change under the impact of the industrial revolution that has swept Africa, bringing thousands of detribalized Africans into the cities and into close contact with vastly differing cultural groups...
Downrange, to the north of Grand Bahama Island, was an even weightier deployment. Circling near the calculated impact area of the Mercury capsule, Lake Champlain bristled with helicopters, and a flotilla of six destroyers strung out along the range. Watching the range with sharp electronic eyes were the swarming radars of Cape Canaveral, and high overhead soared monstrous aircraft burdened with more radars. Neither money, men nor equipment had been spared to protect the life of U.S. Astronaut...
...varying host of demands. The shocking, never a full substitute for the dramatic, at length often fails to shock; the boxes within boxes begin to seem empty; an overextended technique all but reaches a point of no returns. At half its length The Blacks might have twice the impact-as, at the halfway point, it actually does...
...task forces are at work on a new report that is expected to call for a more aggressive Government spending program. This is in addition to proposed increased spending on space exploration and guerrilla warfare forces-programs which, though urged as defense rather than economic measures, would obviously have impact on the economy. But when it comes to programs whose only declared purpose is to spur the economy, Congress and a tax-conscious public are apt to balk, convinced-no matter what the economists say-that even a moderate recovery is evidence that things are going just the way they...