Word: impactions
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Whether she wills it or not, Eva's reign undeniably has its impact on Argentine politics. Only last week, with the First Lady a safe 6,000 miles away, a bitter debate over her trip led two deputies to send challenges to duel to a Radical Party colleague. Eva's enemies have a way of disappearing from the Government. Her family and friends are equally apt to hang on through thick & thin. Eva's brother is now Perón's personal secretary; her eldest sister Elisa is virtually the political boss...
...length and width of Red Square, without a break or a gap. Most of them were smiling. A voice from the loudspeaker regularly bade the crowd to "Hurrah for Stalin." But all quite naturally turned their faces up toward him. No other procession I ever saw had the force, impact or sheer splendor of that ragged million. It was Russia that had passed, in the shape of her patient, pliant, tireless people...
...accounts of World War II are seared with so much brutality and suffering, or depict more starkly the sullen impact of war on the common soldier. Writes Matthews: "Perhaps somewhere on somebody's map the actions of our company made a pretty pattern against the whole picture, but what the readers of those maps probably didn't know was that it was a pretty pattern of desperate little confusions." On Iwo, the "desperate little confusions" prodded many a marine into heroism, many more into death. Author Matthews sums up: "It was easier to go forward than...
...days. The vision of One World has faded, and its place been taken by the fact of two worlds--divided ideologically and politically. Yet much of this division is due to lack of knowledge (a condition which can be rectified) and to a simple and natural resistance to the impact of new ideas and institutions, and above all there is the United Nations--feeble, often ineffective, yet mankind's closest approach to a world government...
Republican regulars looked at Harold Stassen with new interest. Partly it was because the overworked gossip about other presidential possibilities had turned stale for the time being. Partly it was because GOPsters were curious about the impact of his European jaunt. But mostly it was because of Stassen himself...