Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First is the general usage of such terms as Trojan horse, subversive agents, fifth columnists, etc. It occurs to me that none of these carries the full stigma of the old terms spies and traitors. The full impact of feeling of contempt is lost. One might even consider himself smart in being a fifth columnist, but never in being a traitor...
During the spring of 1940 the west of Europe felt the impact of a supremely methodical and ruthless military machine. That offensive, terrible as it was, was no better organized and perhaps no more effective than another kind of warfare which preceded it, accompanied it, and will continue. Representative governments and free peoples are the targets of these attacks. So it may be useful for the U. S. to understand them...
...items: Oscar the Obscene Octopus, a rubber monstrosity in Twenty Thousand Legs Under the Sea (formerly Salvador Dali's Dream of Venus}; bigger & better fireworks (free) which depict sinking submarines and battleships, other current news subjects; Battle of Emotions, a spectacle wherein dancing girls test their visual impact on male subjects, whose emotions are scored on electrical lie-detectors (25?); Dancing Campus (all the dancing to name bands that the customers want for 25? apiece); The Op'ry House (beer and mellowdrammer...
...from a blunt instrument only dents it "momentarily." Yet in such cases the tender brain is almost always wounded. In auto accidents, "when a head in forward motion is suddenly arrested by a massive stationary object, the greatest brain damage occurs at a point directly opposite the point of impact. ¶Even patients who are unconscious "only for a moment" should never be sent home, but should be put to bed for two or three weeks. For many cases of brain injury do not show up until several hours or even days later. ¶ All severely injured brains are flooded...
Nobody knew that an unexploded mine's fuse, jarred by the impact, was at work. Four and a half minutes after the Nazi airmen died, it set off its charge. Next instant there was a crater where the wrecked Heinkel had been. Surrounding houses were smashed flat. A baby carriage hung from a treetop...