Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...children can recognize as many classics as the average music teacher could two generations ago-and highbrow musicians, in their turn, are much more familiar with our popular songs and less Olympian about them. And so the primary concern of our Music department today is with reporting the new impact of music on American life as it wells up from the great national pool of melody which is broadcast, phonographed, sung, hummed and played, danced to, talked about and argued over in almost every American home...
They are harsher in the movie than in the novel or the play, and so is their dramatic impact. In the movie (scenario by Nunnally Johnson, who also did Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath) the camera witnesses many important events that take place offstage in the play. The picture shows the Nazi invaders' confident march into the mining village of Selvik, their mowing down of a pitiful dozen of Norwegian soldiers, the villagers' terror and confusion. Then, in the sharp language of action rather than introspective comment, it describes the villagers' growing hatred and resistance...
...Minimum Agreement." Two decades of a false peace and the impact of global war had changed at least some sections of Senate thinking. The resolution's sponsors, who had sweated over the draft of their document for several weeks and buttonholed many a Senator for his ideas on it, hoped to muster a two-thirds majority...
...Secretary Sir Archibald Sinclair disclosed that Britain has taken steps to offset the world-round impact of the U.S. Air Forces' Transport Commands-an operation which is solely for war, but is bound to blaze the way for U.S. commercial operations after the war. The R.A.F. has formed its own Transport Command to work with British Overseas Airways Corp., whose transport operations have been sadly crimped. The R.A.F.'s famed Ferry Command, which has been whisking bombers across the North Atlantic for almost two years and has lately spread to the South Atlantic, will be subordinated...
They had trouble. Under the necessary 3,000-ton impact, dies broke or spread, forgings cracked. If both the die and the forging stood up, they could expect to run off only about ten gears before the die was worn out. Then they thought of burying the die in solid steel so that it could not stretch, of doing the job in five successive squeezes instead of a single bump...