Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...detonation of the atomic bomb in New Mexico on July 16, 1945, gave Leet and his seismographs an excellent opportunity for measuring ground motion. Although the bomb was exploded in the air, its energy was delivered to the ground in a single vertical impact producing both airborne and earthborne waves...
...instance, poetic justice did not wait for the moderates. One night last week in the Street of the Prophet, a gang of terrorists were literally hoisted on their own petard. Their car, a 1941 Plymouth, swerving under the impact of a British machine-gun burst, hit a traffic island. Then, with door open and amatol mines falling out, it swerved and hit a child, crumpled into a tree, and exploded, blowing the two occupants into tattered shreds. Several houses on both sides of the street collapsed as the mines went off. All that remained of one Arab-style villa...
Dissenting Justice Nathan D. Perlman was almost completely at odds with his colleagues. Said he: "Giving due weight and consideration to the artistic impact of [the story] and judging [it] as a whole ... I find that the story is not obscene...
...veteran finds himself initially bewildered by the sudden array of responsibilities that confront him when he returns to college. The veteran may consider himself fortunate to be clear of that chain of command that formerly made decisions for him. But with the blessing of external freedom has come the impact of an over-severe self-judgment which has focused itself narrowly upon the accepted standards of academic success. So, for many, life at Harvard has come to mean a regimen of eating, sleeping, and studying...
...Ballet Theatre still lie in its repertoire and subordinate dancers. No one can approach a list of productions including Pillar of Fire, Fair at Sorochinsk, Fancy Free, Interplay, the new Facsimile, and a wide range of more familiar numbers. Ballets like Fancy Free have retained surprisingly well the fresh impact that made them famous originally, and the Ballet Theatre still treats them with just the right combination of wit and energy...