Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dickter, a 19 year old pre-medical student, died when his car struck a tree and burned. Police said that the impact of the crash had tossed him into the rear seat. He was alone in the car at the time of the accident...
...like Mindy Carson (TIME, Aug. 1); an account of the monumental recording task which Harpsichordist Wanda Landowska undertook in her 70th year (TIME, June 20); the controversial case of Composer Arnold Schoenberg (TIME, Nov. 15, 1948). This week the news is the Sadler's Wells Ballet company, the impact it has had on New York and will have on all the cities on its tour...
...warning came too late. The P-38 hurtled into the passenger-jammed DC-4 with the split-second destructiveness of a huge explosive shell; its twin propellers chewed through the big plane with a shriek and its projectile impact broke the big plane's back. As the P-38 ricocheted off and plummeted into the river, the shattered transport flashed with fire and broke in two in midair...
...Crommelin handed over a confidential letter to Secretary of the Navy Francis Matthews from Vice Admiral Gerald F. Bogan, commander of the Pacific's First Task Fleet. Crommelin insisted only that his own identity be kept secret for the moment: he wanted nothing to detract from the impact of the letter itself...
Said a Delhi wag: "Two powerful personalities who know very little about each other are now colliding. The impact, on America and on Nehru, should be terrific...