Word: effect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...article apparently had its effect . . . Early on election day men in trucks were . . . buying all available current TIME magazines...
...made a basic change in its official policy toward China. The State Department, however, has decided to keep this change a secret, even from the Chinese. In effect, the U.S. do-nothing policy remains unchanged. This is diplomacy at such a high level that it is invisible from the earth...
...least one sign of growing weakness. Though they rammed through resolutions opposing the election of either Harry Truman or Tom Dewey, they stopped short of a formal pledge to Henry Wallace. Explained President Albert Fitzgerald frankly: "No presidential candidate we could endorse here today could have any other effect than to split the organization wide open...
...characteristics and forces that tend to make a man a criminal, says Dr. von Hentig, are diverse and complicated. A contributing factor may be ugliness, deafness, a physical handicap. Even the time of year and day has an effect (crimes of violence and sex reach their peak in late spring; most women, are murdered between...
...annual convention, the American Newspaper Guild sternly urged its Washington, B.C. local to go to bat for Reporter Tom Buchanan, who had been fired by the Washington Star because he was a Communist (TIME, June 28). Last week the local, in effect, told the A.N.G. to mind its own business. By a 2-to-1 vote, the Washington Guildsmen decided for the second time not to contest Buchanan's firing...