Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first days the full impact of Mahatma Gandhi's peculiar program of civil disobedience had not yet had effect. Riots spread around Bombay, like boils, over the face of the Central Provinces. A few were reported in Bengal, where the Japs may invade from India's northeastern border...
...Brigadier General Asa North Duncan, 50, is chief of staff. In 1918 he was less chunky but equally tenacious as a two-gun photographer-observer. Citadon: "Duncan fought until both his guns were hopelessly jammed by shots which pierced both magazine drums. He was twice knocked down by the impact of shots against his gun mount." Not until after World War I did he win his pilot's wings...
...Princeton and chairman of the conference, will open the meeting at two o'clock. Prominent among the list of conference speakers will be Dr. Leonard Carmichael, president of Tufts College, and Dr. Alfred D. Simpson, associate professor of Education at Harvard and co-chairman, who will speak on "The impact of the War on Educational Policy...
...death, which civilization believed that it had abolished for all but criminals, have become a common experience of our time. No one in this "century of the great social wars" is safe from them. But few writers have Novelist Koestler's talent for recreating their minute-by-minute impact on the raw nerves of sensitive, civilized man, his extraordinary ability to observe and record the details of suffering while he is suffering...
...story called "Learn to Fight Dirty." (To dispose of an enemy sentry, "jump on his back, reach both arms around his neck and shove a foot against the back of his knee. The impact is guaranteed to double him up like a jackknife and if you twist at the same time you'll sever his spinal cord...