Word: impacting
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Documented & Direct. The committee's recommendations were, perhaps, not as important as its manner. Its report, like its hearings, was a product worthy of an unusually able appellate court. It was direct, documented and unequivocal. Its impact was far broader than the two censure recommendations. In sum it was a scathing indictment of McCarthyism, condemning the Wisconsin Senator for disregarding the principles of democracy, good government, fair play and decency...
...Western world to present such a sorry balance sheet. Out of this situation French Communist propaganda easily derived its main strength. In the eyes of many Frenchmen, the Communists were the only ones who talked about progress. The fact that the new government has registered a real impact on the nation has already thrown confusion into the Communist ranks. The bosses of the Communist machine in Paris are deeply disturbed. They sent emissaries to several provinces with explicit orders to fight the confusion in their ranks by explaining that "Mendès-France is the last and slickest...
...away as caused by typhus and by neglecting "the elementary principles of hygiene." In the march-past of commissars, thieves, forced laborers, secret police, distraught mothers and sullen children there are few really absorbing villains, nor are there any heroes - or even very likable people. The book's impact, as well as its conviction, comes from the author's own involvement in the horrors of which he writes: it is a cry, not only from the steppes of central Asia, but from the lower depths of Stalin's new society...
...Rhee's speech did not persuade, it at least impressed. Its impact came from the realistic logic of the essential world situation, stripped of diversionary details. There are weighty objections to Rhee's plan, but its general argument is difficult to dispute: there will be no better time than the present to take the offensive against Communism, and no better place than Asia. Those who did not like the specifics of Rhee's proposal were faced by this speech with the requirement of finding other specifics that fitted the hard logic of his general theme...
...commission, still to be appointed, will report at the end of this year. Primary goal: a method for the U.S. to broadcast TV direct to Europe. Said the House committee report on the bill: "Television can become an important medium in the overseas-information program of the U.S. Its impact upon other peoples could be greater than that of the Voice of America...