Word: impacted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flotsam has brief incidents, descriptions, and mere casual statements that have the impact and brightness of poems: Kern's exquisite pleasure, under shelter of a fortnight's residential permit, in asking a policeman for the time; Steiners utter lack of interest in the world's news ("For someone swimming under water . . . the color of the fishes isn't important"); the man who stands at a Paris police window seemingly in perfect nonchalance, streaming with the sweat of terror; a magnificent passage in which Steiner watches Germany swing past his train window in the dark; Steiner...
Although the Metropolitan District Commission, which polices the Drive, is not acutely worried over the impending mayhem, local sadists are planning to be on hand to see the carnage which should result from the impact of two contrarily-moving Panzer divisions...
Phyllis Moir (pronounced Moyer) was a Churchill admirer long before Dunkirk. In her gawky girlhood he had been a "Walter Scott hero come to life." Later he became the "Peter Pan of British Politics." And finally, "the impact of his personality was so shattering that I felt, when I left his service, that this had been the private secretaryship to end all private secretaryships." Net result: I Was Winston Churchill's Private Secretary is a short, thin, intimate sketch infused with adolescent adoration...
...next 20 years he told Americans things about themselves they had never quite understood before. After the first sensational impact of Winesburg, Ohio (1919), critics began to suggest that his characters were fantastic, that he was obsessed with sex, that his version of Ohio life was not a new kind of realism, but romantic. Anderson could have answered what the Russian peasants say: ";We are the dark people, we live in the dark villages." On that lonely darkness he tried all his life to shed light...
...earnest desire to ensure British victory must not lead us into such bungles for Britain. "Remember the Maine" and the Panay incident have shown the great psychological impact which the loss of a single U. S. Naval vessel could have on American public opinion. We do not want to go to war, but one sinking would reverse the Galup polls. It would mean that America's entry into World War II would be determined and timed either by Adolf Hitler who could force Roosevelt's hand by indiscriminate torpedoing of U. S. shipping or else by F.D.R., himself, who could...