Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...each year the colleges squabble more fiercely about how much or how little TV should be allowed. Radio, though it still has 3,410 stations and 120 million receivers, trails far behind TV as an attention-getter and moneymaker. The Hollywood studios reeled for a time under the impact of TV. Movies will still be made but, thanks to TV, they are already far fewer and far different (e.g., CinemaScope, VistaVision, stereophonic sound...
Though lacking sharpness, A View is for most of the way powerful and tense. Only near the end do things slacken, so that the play concludes with no great tragic impact. This may partly lie in Van Heflin, who, playing a character that Miller made more obsession than man, is wanting, for all his competence, in Italian nature and intensity...
...Mannerist artists sensed the full impact of the world in crisis, they began to warp reality to meet the mounting tension of their inner vision...
Truman hardly had time to absorb the impact of President Roosevelt's death and the immensity of his new job before he was called upon to make a big decision. Minutes after taking the oath of office -less than three hours after Roosevelt's death-he was preparing to hold his first Cabinet meeting, when Press Secretary Steve Early came into the Cabinet Room. "The press, he explained, wanted to know if the San Francisco Conference on the United Nations would meet, as had been planned, on April 25th. I did not hesitate a second. I told Early...
...much state action that the Justices strongly disapprove. . . for more than 15 years the Supreme Court has consistently refused to employ the due-process clause (of the 14th Amendment) to invalidate novel and questionable state economic regulations." But he noted the court has been quicker to interfere "when the impact of government is to restrain the individual in the expression of his thoughts or beliefs or to violate the integrity of his personality...