Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fifteen hundred miles away, an earthquake was devastating Anchorage, Alaska, and a ring of nearby towns and villages. With the thunderous impact of a mountain falling into the sea, the shock waves from Alaska rippled outward, sending tsunamis (seismic sea waves) around the Pacific, flooding portions of North American western shores, coursing across the sea toward Japan and southward toward Hawaii...
...held him prisoner? Or is he using her psychotically, in a way she could never understand, to seek punishment for his traumatic "war-crime" and relieve his guilt? If we decide positively on either side we pervert the tragedy by transforming it into a social "message." Bourguignon deepens the impact of his conclusion by this ambiguity. Our response never admits rights or wrongs. We have perceived the nature of Pierre's love through too many eyes...
...times the immediate impact of a news event leads to exaggeration and distortion of the real story. This tended to be the case with the primary election in New Hampshire, which, with all the polling and computing and promoting, was inflated beyond its scope. In a cool assessment of the results, THE NATION takes measure of New Hampshire's significance in the race for the Republican nomination for President...
...shredded-wheat name had faded. The pink color of Pepto-Bismol was at issue in 1959, when a federal court in New York ruled that the pink had a "functional" purpose and therefore could be copied. Last week the Supreme Court handed down a decision of such broad impact that it overturned unfair-competition doctrines in all 50 states and set a precedent that will affect U.S. industry for years to come. The subject of the dispute was a pole lamp, one of those floor-to-ceiling devices that adorn the modern home...
...white plastic that feels something like a wet bar of soap.* Discovered in 1938 almost accidentally by Du Pont scientists who were working on fluorocarbon refrigerants, Teflon has other valuable properties: it will burn only when directly exposed to flame, is a superior electrical insulator and resists tears and impact...