Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through all this, most other Republicans on the national scene remained timidly silent, leaving Nixon alone on the skyline. The partisan attacks on him were so frequent and so violent that their total impact left many a U.S. voter with an indefinable but nevertheless real doubt about Richard Nixon...
...Chinese woman living in Hong Kong drew a portrait of present-day China in the Rice-Sprout Song. India contributed Amrita and Nectar in a Sieve, the latter by the author of the latest Indian entry, Some Inner Fury. The bulk of these novels pursue one theme-the disruptive impact of Western manners, morals and ideas on the semifeudal, arch-familistic patterns of Eastern life. Kipling said "never the twain shall meet"; the novelists of the East seem to be ruefully saying "never the twain shall part," and rather regretting that East and West met headon...
...wealthy Baltimore real estate man, and his wife Janet. Little more than three years ago, the Wurtzburgers' collecting urge was restricted to Pennsylvania Dutch spatterware and canary-yellow lusterware, but a trip to Africa opened their eyes to primitive art. "It has more variety, strength and impact than the contrived art of today," Collector Wurtzburger decided. But when the Wurtzburgers tried to collect representative pieces, they found that Africa as a source of primitive art has all but dried up. The best pieces had already drifted to dealers in London, Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam...
Research on the economic impact of the University on Cambridge similarly served to support the importance of education as a basic local industry, despite the tax exemption...
...rest, the President's news conference continued history's frankest discussion of the thought processes leading up to an important decision of state. Probed a reporter: "I am curious as to whether . . . you have given thought to the possible impact of [your] announcement on the stock market." Said...