Word: effect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were other straws in the wind. The effect of the U.S. diplomatic offensive against Russian Communism was nowhere more evident than in France. Russia had accepted the U.S. political challenge by ordering its French followers to revolutionary violence. The violence had failed of its purpose. Once forced into the open as a tool of Moscow, Communism had lost much of its appeal to Frenchmen (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...week's events made two points clear: 1) both Republicans and Democrats were a lot more worried about the political effect of what they said than they were about inflation; 2) if there is crop failure or a meat shortage next spring, the U.S. will have to go back to a partially controlled economy...
Free-Trader Pauley said he did not think that grain speculation had caused higher food prices-"even though certain loose charges to that effect have been tossed about by some political parties and candidates." Michigan's Senator Homer Ferguson asked blandly if by any chance he meant President Truman? "No," snapped Ed Pauley, "I mean Harold Stassen...
Then the fighting took an ominous turn. Soldiers of the Trans-Jordan Arab Legion, who have been expected to keep peace in Arab districts, fought with a convoy of Jewish vehicles which passed their camp. Fourteen more Jews died. Palestine was being in effect partitioned, in a way not planned by U.N., as armed forces on both sides dug in at fortified positions...
...neck specially protected, he was wheeled into the hotbox when its temperature stood at 230°. He stayed inside for 15½ minutes while the heat climbed to 262°. His face turned lobster-red when the hot air hit it, but that was about the only abnormal effect the heat had on the professor...