Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over Europe, the emotional impact of Ike's cerebral occlusion was shattering. Eisenhower, hope of the West, the man to whom all were looking to meet and match the Sputnik challenge, had been struck down. In Paris the NATO Council, acting on premature reports that there was no possibility of Ike's attendance at the Prime Ministers' meeting expressed'"satisfaction" that "Vice President Nixon would lead the U.S. delegation," and voted to go ahead with the conference as planned. But privately, European members of the Council admitted that they had done so partly to give...
...action covers the few days up to and after Jay's death in an automobile accident. By sensitively showing the impact of the death on each person, Agee created a novel full of intensely real emotion. The book is a truly poetic work with unity and power that came from a simple, dramatic plot developed through a musically subtle evolution of tone...
...there is also a wild card: the impending Sputnik impact on defense spending. Defense spending is heading upward -and upward, and the words "deficit financing" are showing up in private Washington talk and responsible editorials. With defense spending on the upswing, the breather, recession, cyclical adjustment, period of hesitation, or whatever, may prove to be only a lull between periods of rising prices, which may or may not be called inflation...
...against this background that we must appreciate the impact upon America of the launching of the two Russian satellites. " Americans, he said, took the Russian success as "a blow in the heartland. It will be a long time indeed, before the American people can be brought to forget what they regard as a deep humiliation." So saying, Nye the observer waddled, without fear, from his typewriter...
...This is a wonderful subject for a novel of manners. The organization man and the impact of the corporation on our social life are some of the most significant facts of the American scene today. I am glad writers are beginning to pay serious attention to them. There is nothing easier to do than make fun of the president of an advertising agency or these damned business conferences, don't you know--conventions in Atlantic City. I think they're both bad and good; I haven't very many fixed opinions on them...