Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...light, convertible coupe, was travelling at what police described as considerable speed in a westerly direction along Massachusetts Avenue when the crash occured. Chapman, sitting in the right front seat was thrown through the windshield by the impact...
...flashed Government warning bulletins. Floridians had 48 hours to get set for the impact. From Miami to Palm Beach, store fronts were boarded up, windows shuttered, shelters made ready. Out of Pahokee, in the Okeechobee farmlands, chugged two evacuation trains, carrying 5,000 refugees. Another 10,000 headed upstate in a bumper-to-bumper auto caravan...
Lucky Forward is peppered with similar charges, none of them convincingly sustained. Says Allen: "Patton was the sparkplug and dynamo of the war in the ETO. The full record of his genius and far-flung impact on operations still is entombed behind an official wall of jealous silence and so-called 'classified documents...
...various devices of storytelling, including what Mr. Zabel describes as "a complicated exercise of the mode of averted suspense"-enough so to drive his fascinated reader, at times, nearly to distraction. In its progression, elaboration and somber irony, his prose rarely loses for long the immediate visual impact of phrases such as the one describing Kurtz, emaciated yet commanding, sitting up to harangue the natives in Heart of Darkness: "I could see the cage of his ribs all astir, the bones of his arm waving...
...poetry, "My Heart Is a City," by H. Lawrence Osgood, ranks foremost for its gently tripping pace and for its neat imagery. "Point of Departure," by John Ashbery, and "Anatomy of Degradation," by John Simon, both lack the polished impact of Osgood's brief offering. The poetry necessarily should provide the magazine's continuity-breaks in the utter absence of anything resembling commentary on contemporary issues. One wouldn't even want William Becker's excellent discussion of John Millington Synge to reach a more sensational conclusion than that the Irish playwright led the modern field in "unselfconscious realism...