Word: impactions
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...afraid of being charged with dispensing favors that they are reluctant to sign the simplest document involving money. The trials of Menderes & Co. are still going on in low gear at Yassiada island, but because of mismanagement and the flimsiness of much of the evidence, have largely lost impact with the Turkish public. In fact, the chief effect has been to win the defendants a certain amount of sympathy even among the revolution's early supporters...
From examination of the debris, investigators found that the jet was in a 50° bank to the right at the moment of impact-so steep a bank that it seemed as if the jet pilot had seen the TWA plane and had tried to turn away. The jet's No. 4 engine, the federal men found, crashed through the Connie's cockpit, sucking human tissue into its compressor chamber. The engine was found with the Connie's wreckage on Staten Island...
...Meanwhile, Miss Plowright states Jo's accusations with impish humor; the audience laughs as they listen to her. Jo literally takes her mother to task for "ruining her life;" but her statement of sorrow, of being orphaned is made in such a childlike, inoffensive manner that its impact is not felt until the conclusion. Here the depths of Jo's anguish and the great meaning of her being alone and pregnant is driven home. Only at the end do lines humorously snapped off, such as "Your generation has some very peculiar ideas, that's all I can say," reverberate...
Early this fall, as plans for the program began to jell, prevailing notion of 20th Century Week laid emphasis the former program, a closely knit series of seminars discussing the impact of U.S. foreign policy and principles economic aid on people in foreign countries--particularly the underdeveloped areas of the world...
Little need be said of The Ugly American's impact upon the reading public. Close to 1,750,000 copies were sold, and in the months after the book appeared on the stands, Lederer and Burdick received over 8,000 letters. Each of them answered half...