Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Budgeted $10 million for a new AEC headquarters at Germantown, Md., probably a "three-story, reinforced concrete structure," to withstand any H-bomb impact from Washington...
...when the conference was over, Geneva's most lasting impact was the impact of the personality and character of Ike Eisenhower. Once out of his car, he set the conference's tone, checked its rancors, put its most challenging proposals. Above all, the watching world saw in Ike the face of the U.S. as it had never seen it before. It was the face of a man of peace, in whom there were no thoughts of aggressive war. Beside Ike's shining sincerity, the Russians' newly assumed amiability showed awkward and stiff...
...have been smuggled into England by his father at the age of three, wrapped, like Cleopatra, in a rug. Likelier history suggests that he came later and in more orthodox fashion to take an engineering degree at London's King's College. Whatever the case, his first impact on the oil business occurred when he visited the oilfields of Baku and published a scholarly article about them in a French magazine. Turkey's Director of the Privy Purse spotted the article, and Gulbenkian...
...WOMAN IN THE CASE, by Edgar Lustgarten (218 pp.; Scribner; $3), is a retelling-and also a brilliant explanation -of four famed British murder trials in which women figured prominently. A well-written account of a true crime has twice the chilling impact of fiction. Author Lustgarten, equipped with a sharp, legally trained mind and a novelist's eye and heart, is probably just the man to succeed William Roughhead and Edmund Pearson as top writer in the true-crime field...
...searching and candid lens of foreign cameras, has the world had a good look at him. All his life he has served Communism and his country-as policeman and purger, businessman and bureaucrat, Defense Minister and Premier. Yet, until six months ago, he has made little more impact on the Western world than a splendidly caparisoned beefeater, opening and closing the door through which more ambitious men approached the Soviet throne room...