Word: effect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democratic primary; by evening of election day nearly 35,000 had cast their ballots. To old families in the mansions along Charleston's historic Battery, as to most South Carolinians across the state, this was sacrilege. But proud Charleston spent its bitterness on the cause, rather than the effect of this enormous social change. It charged it all up to cold-eyed, 68-year-old Federal Judge J. Waties Waring...
...Without respite, the Soviet offensive has been carried on. Berlin has two currencies, two food administrations, two trade unions, in effect two city treasuries. In the handling of anything from tax revenues to arrested criminals, Berlin is now two cities...
There will be a month's grace period for complaints; on Sept. 10, FCC will either conduct hearings (if the squawks are loud enough) or else just put the rules into effect. Loopholes may develop later, but at first glance the FCC proposal looks tough for the easy-money shows...
...psychiatric study, is more likely to be "a deep sense of guilt with an unquestionable penchant for self-punishment." Frequently an attempt at suicide is a symptom of some serious personality disorder. Young people, they found, are more likely than older ones to stage fake suicide attempts for dramatic effect...
...only heavy who throws his weight around to any effect is the Sundance Kid (Robert Ryan, a thoroughly hissable villain). He kills a good Indian in cold blood, murders a reformed she-bandit named Cheyenne (Anne Jeffreys) when he can't persuade her to switch back into banditry, and finally meets his match in a protracted barefisted bout with the U.S. marshal (Randolph Scott) after shooting it out unsuccessfully in a lonely building. The locale: the boom town of Guthrie, and the ghost town of Braxton, just before & after the 1889 land rush into Oklahoma Territory...