Word: impactions
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...Authorized a committee, headed by Manhattan Lawyer Whitney North Seymour, to investigate "congressional investigations and their impact on U.S. life," and chosen the same topic as the 1954 subject of the $2,500 Ross essay prize...
...comfortable Christianity for which the U.S. is noted. "Beauty, godliness and away-from-the-city fellowship," according to Smith, lead Green Lakers to "a closer walk with God" (in the words of their favorite hymn). Says Smith: "Business calls its conferences in places where it can press the total impact of its message. Why not religion? Here one can look at life whole and steadily under the impact of God's beauty...
...Evangelist Bob Jones Sr. lamented that while "there is a great spiritual hunger because everybody is scared to death . . . there is no revival, no rebirth of religion, such as there was in the days just before and after World War I. There are many conversions today, but the impact is not as strong as it used to be." Title of Evangelist Jones's sermon: "Shoving Jesus Christ Around...
...began to lose altitude more rapidly. Four miles short of the base, the Globemaster slammed steeply into a watermelon patch, broke up and caught fire, skittering bits of burning metal at a frightened Japanese farmer who stood near by. Most, if not all, of the men were killed on impact, which was so great that many bodies were torn from their boots...
Buried on an inside page, the Chicago Daily News three months ago ran a short, shocking story. "Rats chewed to death a nine-months-old girl," said the 90-word item, "as she lay in her crib in her West Side home [last night]." Few readers felt the impact of the story more than the News's Managing Editor Everett Norlander. Months before, he had planned a series on Chicago's 23 square miles of crawling, crumbling slums, abandoned the idea because he thought it was too big a job. "But I couldn't get that...