Word: affectivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case of Tony Conigliaro is a sad example of how the indifference of the Red Sox can affect a good ballplayer. Conigliaro was a rookie last season, and local spots writers weren't being hyperbolic when they compared him to Ted Williams. Despite missing a number of games because of injuries, he hit .290 and belted 25 home runs. He always seemed to give that little bit of extra effort. This season he has become a sloppy ballplayer; every time he goes to the plate he tries to hit a home run, and as a consequence his average has tumbled...
...emergence of a tough state of modern Maccabees has tremendously strengthened Jewish morale, pride and prestige in a warrior-loving world. For 20 centuries, returning to Jerusalem was only a dim hope of Jewish prayers; now that it is a material, political fact, the question arises how it will affect Jewish spirituality and the complex relations between the homeland and the Jews of the Diaspora...
...national Sigma Chi convention in Denver, where Stanford and other delegates fought to gain local autonomy on member selection. The convention left Stanford still suspended, but authorized a commission to study "relationships with local colleges." All the same, the Stanford case had inspired a landmark ruling certain to affect fraternity life profoundly...
...medics' chief concern was how four days of weightlessness would affect the astronauts' cardiovascular systems. There were fears that a long period of physical inactivity, heightened by the absence of gravity, would make their hearts lazy and flabby, cause dizziness and fluttering of the heart when the men suddenly became active again. White, whose normal heartbeat is an unusually slow 50 per min., registered 96 while lying on the Wasp's examining table. When the table was tilted upright, his heartbeat spurted to almost 150 per min. Four days later it was still...
...grant of power they were to receive. But it was actually the Faculty directors who were using the fluid situation to consolidate their own influence. As before, they could ask the Faculty committee to veto any student proposal they coudn't themselves block. But now they could also affect the HDC's plans from the outset, either by argument, or by suggesting that the Faculty committee would veto a proposal...