Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committeemen reeled for an hour under the impact of Paul's 33-page document, then recovered to deliver body blows of their own. Harry Byrd called the proposal the "most complicated and unworkable plan" the Treasury had submitted in nine years: "It would compel taxpayers to pay more taxes than they have income." Bob La Follette termed its provisions "heresy" and "a hell of a note." To Joe Guffey the scheme was stillborn. It "staggered" Colorado Ed Johnson's imagination. Puddler Jim Davis threw up his hands: "It is too complicated for an ordinary man like...
...combat scenes are better, because battling machines and anonymous faces under stress carry an impact no self-conscious actor can give. When enemy planes swirl like gulls to machine-gun a helpless, bailed-out pilot, or when the screen is hammered full of recoiling guns, pressure dials, the disciplined metal of the air, and spasmodic twisted faces, Wake Island becomes a moving effort to record an action on a heroic scale...
Swimming vigorously to escape the whirling propellers, the Harvard oarsman barely missed mincing, but his shell was split in half by the impact, and the parts only brought to shore with difficulty. The entire accident happened so quickly that passengers were at first unaware of the disaster, until the shouts of onlookers and the shattered wreckage drew their attention to the collision...
...Sing a Gay Little Spring Song) is notable. Some innovations are. For the first time, Disney has done his backgrounds in oils instead of watercolors. The result is striking. The russet reds, browns, bright yellows, make autumn look like autumn. Each season has a special color impact. The colors are softer, more alive and, with the aid of the multiplane camera, give the picture solidity, the forest a three-dimensional depth...
...midsummer of 1914 to span the teeming continent of Europe to take the pulse of the people who were to be the casualties, the heroes, the victims-or the survivors. No backward look by the autobiographers, the novelists, the poets, could bring clearly into view the first impact of war upon the sufferers...