Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...house (Wilfred Funk, Inc.). He tried his hand at light verse, drew up a list of the ten most beautiful words in the English language (dawn, hush, lullaby, murmuring, tranquil, mist, luminous, chimes, golden, melody) and the ten most overworked (okay, terrific, lousy, definitely, racket, gal, honey, swell, contact, impact'). He even compiled a canine dictionary of 204 words that every well-bred dog should understand, ranging from a basic siccum to slippers and ice cream...
Through Jewish Lenses. It may be that too many U.S. Jews are indolent and unschooled in their spiritual heritage, Katz admitted; nonetheless, the impact of Judaism on U.S. culture is so prevalent that "it is a popular pastime to probe the world through Jewish lenses," typically in a musical like Broadway's Fiddler on the Roof. For proof of Jew ish vitality throughout the world, he cited B'nai B'rith's 26% gain in operating finances since the last convention, and the presence of its educational Hillel Foundation on 253 campuses, with 268 more schools...
...performances there and 1,002 more on the road. Its Negro cast spoke in outrageous dialect: "Gangway for de Lawd!" Black angels held fish fries in Heaven and dispensed 10? seegars to newcomers. It might jar contemporary liberals, but Pastures in its day had all the impact of a Negro spiritual; it won the 1930 Pulitzer Prize for drama...
...Shindig Dancers, 2) The Beach Boys, 3) Petula Clark, 4) Trini Lopez, 5) Herman of Herman's Hermits, 6) The Righteous Brothers, and 7) The Supremes. What they and their fellow bobbers of the big beat are like, where the phenomenon came from, and the considerable impact it is having on manners and morals around the world are closely examined in the Music cover story by Writer Ray Kennedy and Senior Editor A. T. Baker...
...surface." No further explanation was offered, but most non-Soviet experts suspected that Lunik V's retrorockets had not ignited, and that the spacecraft had crashed on the moon while traveling at 6,000 m.p.h. Such a failure to slow down would account neatly for the early impact...