Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made by pacifists and leftists who favor nuclear disarmament for Britain continued; last week nearly 4,000 of them, a ragtag army accompanied by skiffle musicians, set forth from Trafalgar Square in a protest march to the Aldermaston nuclear weapons research center 50 miles from London. But their public impact seemed to be fading...
...mimed drama. Jesus wiping the blood from his face, writhing under the lash, stumbling beneath the weight of the cross, sweating with the pain of the nails, looked disconcertingly human. In all this abrasive immediacy, the mystery of God incarnate was largely lost, but the gain in impact was obviously a revelation to viewers. Last week, as BBC tallied up the mass of mail, Producer Michael Reddington reported that "all of it was enthusiastic, except for a few stuffy clergymen who couldn't be expected to approve...
...native Caribbean island. What he has tried for in The Leopard is more than a look into a Mau Mau mind. It is no less than an effort to glimpse the African soul suffering between felt injustice and the dim knowledge that the white man's impact has ended once and for all the chance of returning to the Eden of primitive ignorance and tribal pride that existed before he came...
Principally, the President's optimism was based on his hope that the economy would soon be feeling the impact of wide-ranging Government antirecession measures. Last week he asked Congress to authorize immediate expenditure of half the funds requested in his 1959 budget for civilian agency supplies and equipment, e.g., desks, paper clips. Promptly okayed by the House Appropriations Committee, the measure will enable the Administration to pay out or commit some $840 million that otherwise would not be touchable until after midyear...
...appear. St. Regis Paper's Chairman Roy K. Ferguson, while noting that net sales were down 8% to 10% so far this year, reported that customers were beginning to ask for immediate delivery, a sure sign that "inventory reductions are nearing the point where we should feel the impact of an upturn by not later than midyear." As for steel, which so far has borne much of the brunt of the recession. President Avery C. Adams, of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., No. 4 in the industry, announced that J. & L.'s orders climbed slightly during the first twelve...