Word: impactions
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Greater than the election's effect on Lebanese politics was its impact on the people. Said one mountain farmer in Aleih: "Today I was ready to fight anyone who offered me 10, 20 or 50 pounds to buy my vote. We have finally understood that each one is a free man-and it was that particular pride which touched me a while ago as, hidden in the booth, I placed in the envelope the names which pleased me most...
...give me the superpower antiknock Ethyl think juice, with vitamins added.' And sometimes you will drive off with a hole in your head, when the attendant forgets to replace the cap at the base of your skull." ¶M.I.T. President Julius Stratton, at Carleton College: "The impact of technology upon self-government is to subject the processes of democracy to a complete change of scale. In the massiveness of the effort, the influence of individual leadership is diffused and destroyed . . . Problems are of such colossal magnitude that it becomes virtually impossible to understand them in sufficient detail for wise...
...still-hopeful Stuart Symington, he turned once again to his routine more-defense-spending speech, but drew only polite applause on the Democratic dinner circuit. One reason was that the Symington personality has not registered on the public with any impact during his presidential campaign. Another: the flights of the U-2 showed U.S. military to be mightier-and Russia weaker-than defense critics had anticipated...
...worlds of art coexist side by side, each with its own standards, its own heroes. Measured by the canons of high art, James Montgomery Flagg was a mere illustrator. He refused even to call him self an "artist/' But measured by his impact on the senses and sensibilities of his contemporaries-a valid standard of popular art, however irrelevant to high art-Illustrator Flagg was the greatest U.S. artist of his time. When he died in Manhattan last week at 82. his niche in U.S. cultural history was secure...
...damage existed in the power-package-nacelle area of both Electras prior to their accidents." Even then, the Electras might have flown in relative safety except for violent air turbulence encountered at the Electra's speed (more than 400 m.p.h.). When the planes hit rough air, the impact apparently set their weakened nacelles to shimmying, and the engines swayed so that the propellers no longer revolved at right angles to the wings. As the propellers wobbled, they set in motion a gyroscopic twisting force that wrenched off a wing, probably at a spot close to the fuselage...