Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Teller has another fear pertinent to the day of H-bomb attack: that the U.S. is overlooking one of the best methods of discouraging attack. Such preparation, he wrote in This Week, lies in building underground air-raid shelters deep enough to withstand the impact of the heaviest bombs. "They would be expensive but. . . I believe we could save the lives of most of our citizens. In out-of-the-way places we should build other shelters to protect food supplies and our industrial resources. We could store weapons for our armed forces. We can make sure that we retain...
What was immediate and sure was the beeper's psychological impact. In many quarters U.S. discomfiture was greeted with open glee. RUSSIANS RIP AMERICAN FACE, headlined Bangkok's Sathiraphab, and in Beirut a university professor said wryly of his Arab students: "You would have thought they launched it themselves." But nowhere was the beeper's impact so ominous as in the neutral nations of Afro-Asia, where hundreds of millions of uncommitted minds waver between East and West. Its message, said the London Economist last week, was a simple one: "We Russians, a backward people ourselves less...
...Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, arrives in Jamestown, Va. (after four days in Canada) to begin her first visit to the U.S. since her accession to the world's loftiest throne, the same personable troubleshooter will be there to shatter the sometimes forbidding ice of majesty with the impact of his own easy personality. He is the Queen's husband. Prince Philip, and he will play a considerable part in the success (or failure) of a royal diplomatic mission whose underlying purpose is to help restore to its old warmth the U.S. public's image of Britain...
...hour. But in between, he must find out whom Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice married, define "scyphus," reel off the precautions that should be taken when making an atomic reactor or ponder such posers as how fast a snowball of a given diameter must go to melt on impact with a wall of a given temperature. Though he sometimes postpones the more difficult questions, he usually finds something to say. "Why, honey," he told a girl who wanted to know about Tom Paine's Common Sense, "that was a pamphlet in favor of the American Revolution...
Raintree County is just another movie, only longer. Not even a Boston premiere featuring a slinky starlet and a brass band can disguise the sad truth that this film is almost completely devoid of either sense or dramatic impact. The characters and the events that happen to them just are not interesting enough to justify the three and a half hours it takes this thing to grind to a weary...