Word: impacted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Remembering the build-up impact of Lucky Strike's commercial, L.S./M.F.T., he had planned a campaign on similar lines...
Woody swiftly learned that an order from a superior carried "the impact of a rifle shot" - and that everyone is superior to a plebe except "the Superintendent's dog, the Commandant's cat, the waiters in the Mess Hall, the Hell Cats (buglers), and all the Admirals in the whole - Navy." For the rest of the morning and all afternoon, indignity was piled on indignity. Between affronts, Woody lugged bed clothes, changed white shirt for grey, shut tled to & from the cadet store with supplies, learned about demeanor and demerits, drew a rifle, drilled, ran, crept, crawled, fell...
...minds inside the bullet heads of the Wehrmacht officers hit the receptive mind of the U.S. captain with the impact of a robomb. German officers,* he found, were less flexible than U.S. military men. But they lived, breathed and dreamed war. They understood war as politics and peace as politics...
Somebody had to say something, and I felt it could be more effectively said by a member of the opposition. If Connally nad made the same speech, it would not have had the same impact. I have read and reread it, to see just what I said and why it had such an effect. I still don't know." But he, and the U.S. people, know that it changed history...
...cockpit into which the pilot is locked before the takeoff. The plane (reportedly in production in Manchuria) is a pusher type, engine and propeller at the rear of the fuselage. Its torpedo-like nose carries a long ton (2,240 Ibs.) of explosive, fused to let go upon impact of nose or wings...