Word: affected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time, I reported to you the editors' reasoning behind such a story. "It is news," they said, "in the sense that what the U.S. is or is not doing in the Middle East will affect the future course of events just as much as the stuff in the headlines." Since that time, two assassinations and the law nationalizing the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company have made plenty of black headlines. And Secretary Dean Acheson finally admitted a fortnight ago that conditions there "might easily deteriorate into a situation out of which war could grow...
...worth passing on to the reader. This selective process demands a critical attitude and operates in two ways. First there is the information itself, for which sources have been evaluated and cross-checked. In developing the story, facts & figures are organized into their proper place, told as they affect men, not as they look in an account book. Sometimes, for instance, a man's offhand remark in a bar may tell more about him than all his political speeches...
...trembled. Yet in this fragile frame is a will tougher than the rock of the Elburz Mountains and more inflammable than the oil of Abadan. A month ago, scarcely anyone in the West had ever heard of Mohammed Mossadeq; by last week, what he said and did could powerfully affect the free world's security...
David Lester and Leon A. Greenberg established that it is "virtually impossible" to inhale enough alcohol fumes to get intoxicated. The two men were conducting tests to discover how fumes would affect men working with alcohol...
...sunspots themselves, however, but the active gases which cause them, can lead to serious interruption of radio communications and affect the weather, Menzel added. He dismissed as nonsense recent speculation that the sunspots might set off atomic stockpiles...