Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bullet from which this lead residue came was probably one of those that struck the President and therefore came from overhead and to the rear. Experts established that the abrasion in the wind shield came from impact on the inside of the glass...
Lest it be supposed that cries of "freedom", while good for a round of applause, do not have the impact of "pocket-book" issues on the voter, one may recall last year's Wheat Referendum in which over a million wheat growers participated. Secretary of Agricultture Freeman warned that the defeat of the wheat control program would mean a thirty per cent drop in farm income, but the farmers followed the Farm Bureau's slogan, "for freedom, vote 'no'", and a majority voted against the Administration's proposal. It may be difficult for Eastern liberals to understand, but in those...
Perhaps one member of the Doty Committee hit on one key difference between the present report and the Redbook, one which also reflects a contrast in tone and ambition. As he said, "That may have had a greater national impact, but we will probably get most of ours passed...
Inch by inch the aerial thief descends to cop the swag. Second by second the suspense intensifies. If the rope slips, if a tool falls, if so much as a large bead of sweat drops off the burglar's brow and lands on the pressure-sensitive floor, the impact will inevitably stimulate tiny electronic centers and trip the general alarm...
...Family. Wilson won scientific credentials aplenty - a B.S. from M.I.T. (1916), an M.I.T. associate professorship in chemical engineering, 90 patents for petrochemical inventions, 120 scientific papers. But even more winning was his impact on other men. Presenting him with the Society of Chemical Industry's Perkin Medal in 1943, American Chemical Society President Thomas Midgley Jr. couldn't help recalling an 1895 picnic in Beaver Falls, Pa., where both he and Wilson were born. Midgley was being bullied by a gang of "incipient hoodlums." Up came Mrs. Wilson with two-year-old Bobby. "Kick the naughty boys," commanded...