Word: impacted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vandenberg had been the marked man of U.S. foreign relations. The most concrete thing he said in that speech was a recommendation that the U.S. and her major allies sign an immediate treaty to keep Germany disarmed by force. This was not a new idea. What gave it international impact was the fact that a leading member of the opposition said it, the earnest way he said it, and the effect of his words on his party and the U.S. at large...
...adaptation has also lost much of the dramatic effect which Ibsen originally wrote into the last act. Here, deciding that she must fight against the social convention of the Victorian Era, Nora decides to leave her husband. But the emotional impact which the climax originally possessed has been entirely lost, as the script drags unwholesomely at that point. Too much time is lost in meaningless dialogue between Nora and her husband to retain any of the effect...
...foreign civilians and war prisoners out of Germany would have to await peace and some kind of order. In Sweden, Switzerland and elsewhere, thousands of earlier refugees awaited repatriation. But sooner or later they would get back; sooner or later political Europe would feel their impact...
Klee, Kandinsky and Mondrian stand in somewhat the same relation to art as Gertrude Stein does to literature. Just as the unfettered Stein prose confused many a layman but benefited such popular writers as Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos, so the abstractionists have had a major impact on U.S. typography, advertising layout, architecture (see cut). By now, the layman, whether he knows it or not, owes a good-sized debt to the nonobjective painters...
...their explosives in the streets. A bomb-filled suitcase was picked up outside the office of the National Comptroller. The bombs were all alike. Each consisted of a quarter-pound of dynamite and buckshot, tightly wrapped in cloth, with a detonator ingeniously arranged so that it would explode on impact...