Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Long rifle" bullets are the most lethal of three types commonly used in .22-caliber weapons. "Shorts" are tiny, "longs" the intermediate size. Hollow-nosed bullets are particularly vicious because they spread on impact, enlarging the area of damage...
...revolution the private preserve of those with nothing to lose but their chains: the workers. In this revolutionary spring of 1968, however, it is the students-most of them from comfortable middle-class backgrounds-who have proclaimed themselves the vanguard of a new order. Quite apart from their political impact in the streets, youthful activists are putting the theology of orthodox Communism in a curious pinch: they are revolutionaries from the wrong side of the tracks...
...fewer than 200 Negro students, a petition for a Negro history course drew 1,800 student signers. The course will be taught by Sociologist-Historian Henry Allen Bullock. He intends to examine the Negro's origin in Africa and the clashes of African and European cultures, study the impact of the slave trade on the Caribbean and the U.S. South, and trace the development of segregation...
...committee on the future of the Harvard House system, d) a committee on creating a program of Afro-American studies at Harvard, e) a committee on the uses of computers in Harvard instruction, and f) a sub-committee of the established Committee on Houses which took up the impact the opening of a 10th Harvard House in 1969 will have on the existing Houses and on off-campus living at Harvard...
...Kennedy's impact does not stop at the power shifts his campaign style encouraged. He brought to the electorate the feeling that political life could be meaningful as well as exciting. Campaigning against the "politics of joy," he was the first American politician since his brother to bring a sense of gleeful buoyancy back to the hustings. Kennedy's name and good looks aside, much of this happy frenzy was due to his audience's knowledge that only Kennedy gave sure promise of ending -- or at least transforming -- the dull pain emanating from the nation's capital these days...