Word: impactions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...details. The court is about 200 ft. long; the ball is so hard (rubber core wound with nylon string, covered with goatskin) and goes so fast (up to 175 m.p.h.) that the front wall has to made of 12-in.-thick granite block-concrete would crack from the impact. The ricocheting angles are infinite, requiring incredible feats of agility, timing and strength. And there are times when just staying alive amid the buzzing missiles can be a victory...
...nominate the people who have had the most significant impact on current events and attitudes. They can be no other than the four girls who were killed by the Birmingham church bombers...
...creating the Impact. Belli adds to such devices a superb sense of dramatic timing. In one of his most famous cases, he represented an attractive young woman who had lost her right leg. As the trial opened, Belli brought to the counsel table a large, L-shaped package, ominously wrapped in butcher's paper. For days, he shifted the bundle absentmindedly as he addressed the jury, but made no reference to it. Finally, he unwrapped the package slowly as the jury watched in horrified fascination. If the artificial leg he revealed was an anticlimax, Belli immediately rebuilt the tension...
Goodman is an immensely attractive personality. The extraordinary range of his knowledge makes immediate impact. The brilliant unorthodoxy of his social philosophy starties and charges. But his appeal Wednesday night to those fifty undergraduates who flocked about him, and followed him from the hall, was something more. They almost seemed to have discovered the parent of their dreams, at once both sophisticated and protective; a parent who would indulge their most impermissible desires, who would personally promote their initiation into the forbidden mysteries...
...first statistical studies of the re lationship between smoking and lung cancer had an understandable impact: there are 65 million cigarette smokers in the U.S. with an understandable in terest in their own health. But that twelve-year-old beginning left room for argument; even though the research continued, there were a few reputable medical men who were convinced that the case against cigarettes had not been proved. Late in 1959 the American Cancer Society enrolled 1,078,000 American volunteers in a project designed to produce enough statistics to convince anyone. Last week at the American Medical Association...