Word: impactions
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...hands could watch a TV set that had been picked up by police as part of a thief's loot. Tension built steadily until the proud word came: Commander Shepard had landed safely in his space capsule, 302 miles downrange in the Atlantic, six miles from the predicted impact point. He and his capsule had been hauled from the sea by a Marine helicopter, and both were safely aboard the aircraft carrier Lake Champlain...
...expectations. In the operations room at the Mercury control blockhouse, doctors crouched over telemetering equipment that recorded the astronaut's pulse, temperature, respiration. Range officers watched as moving lights on the electronic status board traced the rocket's path, predicted the capsule's point of impact. Another astronaut manned the communications console and began the running fire of reports...
Voice: Your impact will be right on the button...
...Secular Side. The heart of Western civilization, says Historian Dawson, is its Christian culture. By this he means not the Christian religion but its impact on the social life and institutions of the West. Today that Western heart is not beating at the center of things, where it belongs, but is fluttering on the fringes, and Western civilization is sick with a bad case of secularism...
What was the age's impact? It was too much of a minority movement of intellectuals to stir such profound upheavals as the French Revolution, and to the limited extent that Nicolson implies such an impact, he exaggerates or falls into error...