Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, an eight-man panel to study peaceful uses of atomic energy, their impact on the American way of life, the Atomic Energy Commission's peacetime role, and legislation that may be needed to speed the atom's peaceful development...
...cheers, Sir Winston, flushed pink with his mental and physical gymnastics and looking amazingly boyish, bowed courteously. Next he made off for his parliamentary constituency of 30 years, Woodford, to make a speech that teased some more. "Thirty years is a long time," said he, spacing his words for impact, "but I have every hope it will continue longer still." He-and the Woodford constituents as well-knew that he could continue in Parliament after stepping down...
Henry C. Meadow, assistant dean of the Faculty of Medicine, yesterday emphasized the importance of the cadavers to medical students. "There would be a tremendous impact on medical education if the medical schools were unable to obtain anatomical material," he said...
...noticeable increase in studiousness. Senator Fulbright was questioning not only the doings on the stock exchanges, but was using his hearings to investigate business in general. He called for the Defense Department to produce names of the top 100 defense contractors, so he could check up on the impact of defense spending on the market; he got as far afield as the price of General Motors cars, which he seemed to think were too high...
...self-pity. He tried to understand what barracks and discipline do to men's lives, but Lawrence's writing was best suited to description, and it became cluttered when he tried to think. Set down as it is in short jerky chapters, The Mint has no final impact. Above all, it comes too late. A generation of men who know KP chores, the squeeze of discipline and the harmless obscenity of barracks lingo are not apt to be impressed by these documentary notes. To their wives, the book will seem like a more literary version of some...