Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Owned up that he himself had not anticipated the psychological impact upon the world of the U.S.S.R.'s first rocket-launched satellite...
Great as it was, Jon's feat did not come up to Ilsa's for impact on the swimming world. Barrel-chested Jon had been a reserve on the mighty Australian Olympic team, so his time was not altogether a surprise. But Ilsa had never raced the 880 before she set the record. In fact, for a while it had seemed that she would never become a first-rate swimmer. Dogged by colds and flu, she tried hard but won no state titles in 1956. Last year she was troubled by swollen knees, spent twelve weeks with both...
...issue. As chairman of the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee, he will sit as prosecutor and judge while the civilian and military brass from the Pentagon is summoned up to the Hill and cross-examined on U.S. defense shortfalls. The committee's report will have a strong impact on what Congress does about defense. Working closely with Texas' Johnson in the defense area will be the chairmen of the House and Senate Military Appropriations Subcommittees, Texas' Representative George Herman Mahon and New Mexico's Senator Dennis Chavez. Backing them up will be a man who has for years...
...summit meeting conference achieves something great, it will be a failure,'' declared West Germany's Trierischer Volksfreund, saying what most chiefs of government recognized. But calculated leakage of exactly what each nation would propose had robbed the conference in advance of much of its potential dramatic impact. The U.S. delegation arrived in Paris with a draft of the final communique already prepared...
...This ruling could be a real economic disaster for the pipeline companies." So last week said Willard W. Gatchell, general counsel for the Federal Power Commission, as the $1.8 billion-a-year natural gas pipeline industry began to feel the impact of a precedent-setting court decision. Handed down recently by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, the little publicized ruling would i) greatly curtail FPC's authority to control interstate natural gas prices, and 2) give every major gas consumer the power to block a rate increase...