Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...impact of the Germans' robomb blitz on the lives of London's working people has not been told by the daily communiqué's "Damage and casualties were caused." This is the story told to TIME Correspondent Sherry Mangan by a London toolmaker in a defense plant. (Place names are necessarily fictitious...
Good acting can hide many things in a movie, in "Mr. Skeffington," it conceals a slow script and inept directing to produce an exceptionally moving drama with great emotional impact and effective probing of human nature...
Unfrocked Altar Boy. Morton Downey's father was fire chief of Wallingford, Conn. At six, Morton got $1 for singing at a local minstrel show. "That money," says he, "made a terrific impact on me." Since then Downey claims to have gotten "more mileage" out of his voice than any other singer in the business...
Joseph Stalin's armies had no such troubles. They were strong in men and weapons and they held the offensive. Their own choice of a place for the first impact, and their management of it, raised no questions...
Bullets and airplanes are similarly impeded. When they hit air at high speed, the air bunches up in front of them like the hill of water against a ship's bow. The compression creates "shock waves"-turbulent air formations whose impact enormously increases air drag. A bullet can be driven through these waves by explosive power, but no one has yet designed an airplane engine and propeller combination powerful enough to overcome them...