Word: impacted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SHOP ON MAIN STREET. Humor and fantasy heighten the impact of this keen-edged Czech tragedy. In a complacent Slovakian village in 1942, a henpecked nobody (Josef Króner) befriends but ultimately betrays the doomed old Jewess (Ida Kamiñska) whose button shop is given to him by the Nazis...
...planet. It relayed to Soviet stations measurements of heat, radiation and meteorite activity before its radio failed, probably as a result of passing near Venus' atmosphere. Venus III may have sent even more vital information, if its radio did not fail too soon. As it plummeted toward impact, Venus Ill's telemetry abruptly ceased. In any case, the flight represented a remarkable display of space navigation. On the heels of it, the U.S. reaffirmed plans to send Mariner V to Venus...
...this and the Roman Empire fell. Unless we resist this, the United States is going down." So argued Representative Lawrence P. Smith last August in opposition to a bill to amend the 19th century law prohibiting birth control in Massachusetts. The Representative's keen historical insight apparently had its impact, for the amendment was defeated by a vote...
This concern with events has had its impact on the campus, where a news-hungry generation that has been in on the information explosion since the beginning finds the gentle, sophisticated comedies of the '30s and '40s relics to be viewed on the museum of the Late Show. Their memories are less of Benchley than of Berkeley, and, in the absence of much protest humor, they have concentrated on deliberate absurdities that refuse to deal with the adult world. Such were the elephant jokes (What do you get when you cross an elephant with a jar of peanut...
...first attempt at answering that difficult question has been made by a team of anthropologists from Cornell University who have just turned in the first scientific study of the impact of Volunteers assigned to communities in the Peruvian Andes...