Word: affected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House of Representatives last week passed the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 -the dry-as-dust title of a measure that is likely to affect the lives and fortunes of Americans for many years to come. The 298-to-125 vote was unexpectedly large, and the Kennedy Administration, after a series of bitter legislative setbacks, understandably congratulated itself on a significant victory. But the issue was in fact much harder fought than the vote indicated, and the outcome was in doubt until the final hours...
...physician, said Dr. Hinkle, the most workable definition of work is Tom Sawyer's: "Work is what a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do." And while there is evidence that the demands of the job may affect the health of the man, it is equally true that the nature of the man is an important factor in determining the extent to which the job is demanding. "The demands of the job." Dr. Hinkle said, "are those perceived in it by the individual...
After a 21-gun salute at the airport, Chiari told Kennedy: "I believe that frankness is the only way two friendly nations can attempt to solve their problems." Friendliness he found-and frankness too. Kennedy offered to settle many of those grievances that do not affect U.S. sovereignty: more employment and higher wages for Panamanians in the Canal Zone, the right to have the Panamanian flag flown next to the U.S. flag everywhere in the Canal Zone, a U.S.-enforced system to withhold the income taxes of Panamanian and non-U.S. workers in the Canal Zone. But the concessions...
...European duties will affect $27 million worth of U.S. chemical and textile exports, and if chemical and textile producers hope to hold onto their European markets, they may now have to liberalize their position on tariffs. Last week's tit-for-tat action by the Common Market is a clear warning against further U.S. lapses into protectionism, and a bold suggestion that the U.S. has scant choice but to accommodate its trade laws to the new economic realities of a resurgent Europe...
Woodworth had more to say about the way in which music, poetry, art and literature could affect a man's life. He discussed at length "the Deep Well of human experience"--a phrase used in Lowe's The Road to Xanadu--and he hoped his listeners would be able to draw upon this well "for solace, and comfort, and strength, and inspiration...