Word: impacted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...political party"), though she prefers the Chungking Government to the Communists and insists that stories of quarreling among the Soong sisters (Mesdames Chiang Kaishek, H. H. Kung and Sun Yatsen) are just leftist propaganda. But readers of China to Me will learn something about China's impact on Emily, almost everything about Emily's impact on China...
...wall, emblazoned with lights; that Seurat's huge Grande Jatte should be isolated, hung low, placed near a miniature formal garden which complemented the painting's colors; that an Aztec Goddess of Death be mounted on a hillock with rocks, gravel, cacti. Kepes' eye for impact value rates much of the credit for the show's success...
...tens of thousands of tons per square inch at the center, perhaps enough to disintegrate an unstable atom such as uranium and release its explosive atomic energy. British scientists believe that such an explosion, though not far-reaching in area, would develop unheard-of violence at the point of impact...
...penetrates deeper, causing more damage at the crater site, less damage and injury from blast and flying glass in the vicinity. Mr. Churchill implied that this effect was intentional. But the speed of the rocket's fall is so great that the most sensitive impact fuse would probably not be able to explode the warhead above ground...
...chief point of interest was the bomb's simple power system. In the usual jet-propulsion machine, air is taken in at the front, compressed by a turbine-driven mechanical compressor (e.g., a fan), then mixed with fuel in a combustion chamber and expelled at the rear, the impact of the expanding air and gas, like a gun's recoil, giving the machine its push. But a compressor would have added greatly to the bomb's weight and complexity. To eliminate it, the Nazis hit on a way to use the force of the inrushing air itself...