Word: affected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...puts things down on canvas with unhesitating directness, as if reality guided her brush. But her realism is never merely photographic. Sometimes her patterns take on an expressionistic freedom, with pronounced rhythms, suggesting Van Gogh-or, nearer home, Marsden Hartley. But such parallels, probably coincidental, do not affect the authentic originality...
...This has been vastly swollen by the addition of new nations. We wish all these new nations well. Indeed we created many of them and have done our best to ensure their integrity and prosperity. But it is anomalous that the vote or prejudice of any small country should affect events involving populations many times exceeding their number, and affect them as momentary self-advantage may direct...
...belief that it is a specialized concern of a special few. This assumption flies in the face of an unparalleled broadening of popular interest in business. Whether as consumers, taxpayers, stockholders, homeowners, union members, employees or businessmen, newspaper readers are concerned as never before with the economic fronts that affect their pocketbooks. Millions of readers, for example, have a direct stake in blow-by-blow coverage of inflation and its many-faceted causes and effects...
...cites Jewish opposition to inclusion of a question about religion on the U.S. census and the lack of public Jewish support for the Catholic position in the Hildy McCoy adoption case (TIME, April 1 et seq.). "Too often . . . the question Is es gut far Iden? (How will it affect the Jews?) seems to determine official Jewish action on public issues...
...assets, for fear that they could produce a monopoly. Bicks soothed their fears. Though Section 7 of the Clayton Anti-Trust Act as amended in 1950 covers all asset acquisitions (it previously covered stock only), the amendments state clearly that "nothing contained in this action shall be held to affect or impair any right heretofore legally acquired." Therefore, he reasoned, a great many of pre-1950 mergers are "not subject to challenge...