Word: effect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Swomley branded the action "dangerous, un-democratic, and un-American," since all three clubs recently made their lists available to the National Security Committee, an organization backing Universal Military Training. He charged that the clubs' officers were, in effect, lobbying for one side of the conscription issue, without the knowledge or consent of club members...
...west steel mills are nearly played out, and if cheap Labrador ores can't be shipped down the St. Lawrence, an unthinkable dislocation of the steel industry will occur. Senator Wiley of Wisconsin warned in recent debates that, by refusing to build the Seaway, "we shall in effect be tying a nose around our own necks." Wiley accused New England of a conspiracy to block the project and force steel companies to move East where cheap ores can easily be shipped...
...State Department, weighing the military argument, still clung to the hope that ERP plus diplomacy might be enough. Privately, the highest Cabinet officers pleaded with legislators for universal military training because of its "moral effect on the Russians." Their argument was full of contradictions. One top administrator summed them up: "We are sure Russia doesn't want war any more than the U.S. but she has set in motion forces which she cannot control...
...Communist seizure of Czechoslovakia, which coincided with the collapse of Der Optimist, had produced a sobering effect on most Austrians. More than half of their country rested in a Red nutcracker, with Czechoslovakia to the north, Hungary to the east, and Yugoslavia to the south...
...Europe and the development of his novel. What he does, however, is to recreate with great skill the emotional atmospheres of totalitarian terror. The pastoral scene in which the brothers explore the meanings of nature & man is transformed into a fearful and terrifying "battleground full of ominous Gothic effects-miasmal fogs that confuse the Chief Ranger's victims, weird battles between dogs that suggest the means by which Hitler dominated Europe, thick smoke arising from the crematoria and torture chambers of the "flaying-hut," and the plaguelike spread of the Chief Ranger's "glow worm" agents. The total...