Word: affectivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...might have been more. The trustees at Valley National Bank, where Peggy's inheritance has been handled for about 30 years, invested her funds mainly in bonds, so the soaring stock market did not affect her account. By comparison, the estate of Peggy's mother, who received an equal share of the Johnson fortune in 1932 (and who died last November), has been estimated in probate...
...deep-dyed Southerner, no one has ever before accused him of letting that affect his judgment of baseball players. One of Dark's first acts on taking over the Giants in 1961 was to end the practice of "pairing," by which Negroes and whites were not permitted to share the same locker. He has used as many as seven Negro and Latin American players in a single game's lineup. Negroes and Latin Americans have displaced several established players on the Giants-Negro Jim Ray Hart for Jim Davenport at third base, Puerto Rican Jose...
...NOISE. Electronic racket raisers, says the colonel, "will project high-intensity, variable-pitch sounds, blatting, shrieking noises, etc., in such volume that they will be almost intolerable to the human ear." Another promising device: "A revolving, car-roof-mounted, flashing spotlight of such brilliance that it will temporarily affect the vision of rioters...
That both these exhibitions reach uncommon heights of mediocrity should affect the success of the Festival only slightly. For this is not really an arts festival at all but a peculiar sort of New England circus to which people go to see other people looking at pictures. The only thing that darkens the happy atmosphere of this carnival is the realization that a city which saw some grand times as an American culture center produces an annual show of visual arts that gets worse every year...
...BANS OUR GIRLS, headlined London's Daily Mirror, in wry reference to the fact that the restriction on visas was ordered under a section of the U.S. immigration law that prohibits entry of aliens who are "afflicted with leprosy, who advocate polygamy, and whose employment will adversely affect wages and working conditions" of Americans. Despite the presence of an estimated 3,500 English secretaries in New York, the city actually has a shortage of typists and stenographers. But the U.S. Government, suspecting sharp practices by some employment agencies, grew worried as visa applications began piling up at the London...