Word: affectioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That vote could not directly affect Roger Slaughter. He was not running from Harry Truman's district. But with it would go all the prestige of the presidential office. In a single, considered statement ("If he's right, I'm wrong") the President had repudiated Congressman Slaughter, had thrown the whole weight of his personal and political backing behind Candidate Enos Axtell. A rebuff for the President in his own state would be a bruising setback...
This tournament will not affect the present intramural league schedule. The unusual feature of the play-offs according to Samborski will be participation of varsity players and of a squad called "dormitories...
Nobody knows, said Oppenheimer, how the sub-particles fit together or affect each other. To find out, physicists must somehow duplicate the atom-smashing carried on in nature by cosmic rays...
True, Washington economists still worried about inflation. Gloomily they counted up the losses through strikes of more than 98.6 million man-days of work and a minimum $3.1 billion goods. They thought how badly that would affect the breathless race between production and demand. Industry's pipelines were sucked out. The 45-day coal strike was a blow at production's source from which it would take industry many months to recover. The smooth and efficient exchanges of goods and services had all but vanished...
...softening. His 5 ft. 10 in., 165-lb. body is solid and strong, his blue eyes clear. As vice president of France, he sits in the fussy luxury of the Hotel Matignon, which Austro-Hungarian ambassadors occupied before 1914. The Gobelin tapestries on the walls neither fit nor affect his revolutionary ardor. He doesn't even know the name of the Roman Emperor whose bust faces him. When Thorez laughs (he is one of the few Marxists who laugh), his bellow shakes the air, and the imperial chandelier tinkles...