Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attitude gave the Japanese the same dreadful kind of surprise that Adolf Hitler felt when the British decided to fight if he moved on Poland. Poland was the last straw- to the British; French Indo-China looked like the next-to-last straw to the U.S. The impact on Japan was immense...
...gone. The Nazis had assured them: 1) bombers will never reach Berlin; 2) Russia is our friend and this war will never have two fronts; 3) the war will end in 1940; 4) in 1941; 5) the U.S. will never come in. To older Germans who remember the impact of the fresh, strong, enthusiastic, unprepared, badly trained U.S., which turned the tide of World War I, the new press preparation was ominous. To the youth of Germany the probability of the U.S. fighting against them was a blow; for the youth of Germany-which cannot dance, hear good jazz...
Author Kagawa tells his story from nearly every point of view except from that of Jesus. From the beginning of His mature teaching period until the Resurrection, the impact of His career is shown not only on the disciples and the two Marys, but on the high priests, Herod Antipas and Salome, Pontius Pilate and his wife, the rabble and the revolutionaries of Palestine...
...Labor Ministers have been utterly unable to make Churchill grasp, on the economic side, the revolutionary character of the changes produced by the war. . . . He has an emotional interest merely in its domestic impact. . . . The pathos of the bombed areas makes him demand instant action. But the inadequacies of the policies of his Government in education, for instance, or evacuation, do not arrest his interest, and nothing proportionate to their importance is attempted. . . . He does not even begin to understand the gravity of his colleagues' failure to grapple with the problems of production. . . . Mr. Churchill remains a very great...
...week's end the impact of the bill had reached far beyond Congress. Many a U.S. citizen agreed with Representative Fish that Jesse Jones could be trusted not to misuse his powers in this great emergency. But others looked beyond the emergency and shivered...