Word: impacted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that "Revolution 9," which is hardly rock 'n' roll, might turn out, some dark and wintry night, to be right (it hasn't happened yet for me) but I know that "Ob-la-di Ob-la-da," which is pure rock, is right nearly all the time. This instant impact that rock 'n' roll has is due in part to the fact that it hits the listener at that deep level at which he stores his reservoir of the basic emotions of man: sorrow and delight, sexuality and violence. Being always present these responses are easily aroused. In part also...
That is the conclusion of a report by a Harvard-based group that has been studying the impact of modern technology on society for the past four years under a $5-million grant from the International Business Machine Corporation...
...features are of primarily volcanic or meteoric origin. He reported seeing what seemed to be lava flows and cinder cones, and said that photographs of the back side of the moon revealed "anamolous dark regions that may indicate new lava flows, volcanic activity." But he had seen impact craters, too, and he noted that "there are enough holes on the moon for both theories...
...tended to help curb the nation's overexuberant economy by making credit so costly that businessmen will borrow and spend less. Because they operate in directly, such restraints at best take effect only after a time lag of weeks or months. The immediate impact fell on the securities markets, forcing bond yields up and stock prices down...
...Congress was glad that the President had come back, for its first concern is with itself. Its impact on the world outside is scattered, usually punitive, petty. It looks after its own, and its own interests bear no particular relation to those of the nation. It is moribund, inward-looking, private. Its heroes are its defenders--men like Sam Rayburn, Carl Hayden, and Lyndon Johnson. On Tuesday night one of its heroes came back, back where he belonged