Word: affectioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...street had heard, but did not yet believe, that some day a scientist somewhere-perhaps in the U.S. -might press a button that would set up an atomic chain reaction and blow up the world (see SCIENCE). He took the news, as he took all news that did not affect his own immediate, personal wellbeing, in stride. It was too big for headlines, too big for him to comprehend. Anyhow, somebody would see to it that it did not happen...
...wanted. Last week, on his way back to China, the General did some public thinking about the U.S. stake in China's civil strife. "There is no doubt," he said, "that the turn of events in an area embracing half the world's population must inevitably affect our country-economically, psychologically and perhaps militarily." In Shanghai Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid said: "We are not just laying bricks. We are building a house. We want to put the Government's armies where they can bring peace to China...
...correspondent in Stockholm, is now TIME'S correspondent in Berlin). But as a study in social forces, the book insists on an important fact which most Americans like to overlook or dismiss-the fact that Europe is going through a social revolution, which cannot fail to affect the whole world...
...case was prosaically listed ". . . Vashti McCollum v. Board of Education . . ." but it had some of the same features that made the Scopes "monkey trial" a sideshow of the '20s. And, though the decision would immediately affect only the citizens of Champaign...
That was all she had to say. Judge Clarke asked: "How did this affect...