Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ontario's Premier George Drew worried out loud about the impact of U.S. publications, films and radio upon Canadian life and opinion...
Seven miles away, the U.S. Fifth Army was hard at work. Home-front listeners could not hear the gunfire but, with the special imagination that listeners bring to radio, they thought they could feel the roof of Station JJRP tremble under the impact of exploding shells, as the warcasters described...
...impact when we struck the ground was cushioned ... I knew we had hit a tree. ... I got the idea I was a dead man. . . . My eyes were closed for a few seconds. When I opened them I could see green vegetation...
...Cyril Forster Garbett, Archbishop of York, Primate of England and Metropolitan, slipped across the Atlantic Ocean into the U.S. (it was his first visit), there was no Protestant churchman who could have impressed Americans more. For the Archbishop was a symbol of one great Protestant church which, under the impact of war, had suffered a passion and predicated a resurrection...
Meoe, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin. Men find it hard to read the true meaning of most things, but the hardest of all to read is the handwriting on the wall-which becomes legible to everybody only when the walls begin to totter and collapse. In mid-January, 1941, under the impact of Nazi bombs, the walls were falling on all sides of the 221 Anglican prelates, priests and laymen who under the sponsorship of Dr. Temple, then Archbishop of York, huddled in greatcoats in the unheated rooms of Malvern College. It was not only British walls that were crashing. Under...