Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President of the U.S. declare his intention to bow out of the ] presidential race. Lyndon Johnson's decision to retire from office, coming as a surprise climax to a surprise speech on Vietnam, gave the President's newly-stated conditions for ending the war the kind of impact that his own intended departure from the White House...
...opinions, have signed petitions supporting Dubček, deluged government offices, radio and TV stations with calls, and even marched in the streets. Because it offers a socialist form of democracy so far unequaled anywhere in the Communist world, Czechoslovakia's revolution may have a far more lasting impact on Communism than either Tito's breakaway from the Kremlin or the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. "It lies upon us, on Czechs and Slovaks," says Forestry Minister Josef Smrkovský, "to enter courageously into unexplored terrain...
...Central Committee is due to get Dubcek's reform program, which is likely to remove some controls on the economy and give the people a greater voice in their affairs. While the other top Communists in the Soviet bloc are clearly worried about the program's impact in their countries, Dubcek must deliver something to his own people, who have been clamoring for specific reforms to go with their wider freedom of speech...
...never had it so good, Italy last year boasted a growth rate of 6%, sec ond only to Japan among industrialized countries. One Italian family in two now has its own car; virtually all have a television set, and often a refrigerator and washing machine to boot. The nationwide impact of television is relentlessly nibbling away at Italian regionalism, making Italians in the south more like Italians in the north, and making both of them hunger for the good things of the consumer life. For this prosperity, the Christian Democrats, as the dominant partner in the Center Left coalition...
Before the projectile hits the ground, a small parachute tucked into its hollow tail is released, pulling out a long wire antenna. As the projectile pierces the earth, a small, insulated accelerometer responds to the sudden impact and subsequent slowing by producing a voltage that varies with the rate of deceleration. The voltage is amplified and transmitted through the antenna, which, unfurled, is long enough to remain extended above the surface...