Word: affects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...easygoing man. Reid claims that his bizarre beat does not affect him: "I don't have any trouble sleeping." But watching men die has made him a firm opponent of capital punishment. Says he: "I'm sure there have been at least six or seven executed for crimes they did not commit, and Lord only knows how many people died for crimes they did commit but whose punishment was too severe...
...keep readers abreast of great events that affect the course of history, TIME'S correspondents, writers and editors work long and intensely on the big stories, e.g., the Geneva conference of foreign ministers (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Toward the Testing, and FOREIGN NEWS, The First Step). But many TIME stories that cast new and fascinating light on life lie far from the scene of such historic encounters. Some of this week's examples...
...Janeiro's JORNAL DO BRASIL: Senhora Luce can be certain that the U.S. Senate debate did not in the least affect the Brazilian concept and appreciation of her personally. The predominant opinion, now that we will not have her here with us, is deep disappointment. Brazil's role in Pan-American development would have been ably treated by a diplomat with the extraordinary abilities and superior intelligence of Senhora Luce...
...rest of it--as the beauty of Anne Frank's character dissolves into naughty cuteness, we are left with eight people who flirt, fight, and fret in a disappointingly usual way. The play managed, without ever seeming to strain, to suggest how sustained tension and continuous confinement would affect them, while the film injects these changes artificially...
...long-planned tour to talk with top ranking Washingtonians, including President Eisenhower and Chief Justice Earl Warren, now waiting in Washington's Old Senate Office Building. Candidate Kennedy, head tucked in careful thought over each answer, was quizzed on his Roman Catholicism and how it might affect his decisions in office...