Word: impactions
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...bones of flyers who have fallen on land from altitudes of 1,000 ft. or more, usually have to be dug out of the ground from beneath their flesh, through which they, being harder, are driven at the body's impact with the earth...
...marveled at huge bars of blue and yellow light rocketing through the sky-a violent freak electric storm. A little later- At Sea Cliff, on the north shore, grey Long Island Sound suddenly delivered out of its flat bosom a towering column of water that raced ashore with terrific impact, spinning up trees by their roots, cottages by their foundations, dragging wreckage into the Sound on its backwash. (Cyclones and waterspouts [which are cyclones over water] are caused by air rushing to fill an area of low pressure, being diverted into an inward spiral motion by the spin...
...frenziedly. Water, heavy and pitiless, swung open doors, sloughed about carelessly. "For God's sake, throw a line to us!" Six men on duty in the engine room reached for levers, were whirled away by the inrushing torrent. In the choppy waves struggled sailors knocked overboard by the impact. Sinking fast into the ocean were the men caught below, clambering frantically up onto the pipes as the black water pursued. Deadly chlorine gas swirled from the battery compartment. With a swish the glistening submarine sank beneath the moonlit waves. Three were saved...
...Masque of Venice. A brittle English comedy cracked into small and singularly uninteresting pieces under the impact of a maladroit company and production. So lethargic was the entertainment as thus presented that it is difficult to comment on the play. Probably, however, it was nothing much...
...Significance. This is no biography, no historical novel. It has no dates, no footnotes, no bibliography. It is a series of fierce impressions, summing into 150 small pages the impression of a man's life. It has terrific compression and impact. An example from the text...