Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Washington had known it was coming, just as surely as it had known the storm was coming. Nevertheless, the news hit the nation with the jarring impact of a fear suddenly become fact. The comfortable feeling of U.S. monopoly was gone forever. The fact was too big and too brutally simple for quick digestion. What had been a threat for some time in the future, hard to visualize, easy to forget, had become a threat for today, to be lived with...
...With the impact of America's position in Europe becoming steadily larger, interest in the program of the Seminar is steadily growing. Not only has the Seminar achieved a high reputation with European teachers, but more important, the 85 students here have been devoted to finding out just as much as possible about the United States during their six-week stay...
After a trip to the impact point, Commander Murphy reported: "The warhead was in one piece...
...power, is in the penetrating power of its high-speed, ultra-shortwave rays. Ordinary rays do most of their work at the skin surface or just below it, and are then dissipated. In large doses they cause serious skin burns. The betatron's supercharged rays have their greatest impact on malignant cells from an inch to an inch and a half below the surface...
...inevitable impact of Carter's sermon, written by a liberal with a capital L, is to fortify the complacency and indifference of the South. [Nothing he said] could not have been written with equal ardor by a Southern Conservative...