Word: effect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Misconceived Salvation. Of one thing he was certain: that fear is a poor teacher. Men began to fear the bomb from the moment they first heard about it-a fear fed by radio broadcasts, newspaper reports and magazine articles. The effect of these shivery reports-though not their purpose-was "to make the mysterious and the horrible even more mysterious and horrible...
From General Lucius D. Clay, American occupation zone commander, came the mild reprimand: "It is bad citizenship to encourage people to disobey the law of the land." Niemöller's directive seemed to be having little practical effect. Germans were still testifying against Germans. The remaining denazification trials were expected to end next June. But many Germans were delighted with Pastor Niemöller's words, and in the arena of world opinion they still carried, for some listeners, immense authority. Was this authority justified...
Although the net effect of their efforts admittedly will be small, it is a valuable step in the right direction. Any investment is sure and safe. The books will be received and distributed in Europe by persons associated with the University. All the undergraduate can lose is a book he may never read anyway. Central Europe stands to gain at least one student who knows a book's worth about the world or the West. The price...
...demonstration, characterized as "spontaneous" by PCA headquarters in Boston, led to a resolution at the organization's Sunday convention backing the scientist for governor. The action did not have the effect of a nomination, a PCA spokesman explained, since the meeting was not a third party convention...
...leader of the gold-hunting party (Huston), whom the others call "the old-timer," is an almost superhuman character. He keeps the party together as long as he can, and it is only when his wisdom loses its effect on the nuerotic boy-man Dobbs (Bogart), that there is murder and madness. The events, until the gold dust is lost by a seeming accident, have an inevitability that comes from the characters of the three men. Tim Holt plays the third, a straight role that bears the small romantic element of the plot. Only in his part...