Word: effect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...consisted of reports from confidential informants who identified themselves with mysterious symbols such as EP T1, ND 402, and T-7. Much of the information was obviously gossip and hearsay; there was no assessment of the informants' reliability, and their varied statements were unrelated and fragmentary. Nevertheless, the effect was sensational...
...because of this wide-spread effect of the Roman Catholic strategy that it is ridiculous to suggest, as some have, that criticisms of that strategy ought to be banned as "trouble-making" or "intolerant." An attempt to control the lives and thoughts of every one of us ought not to be permitted to escape criticism by hiding under the blanket of tolerance. For "American Democracy and Catholic Power" is not Ku Klux Klan rabble-rousing, but a picture carefully documented largely from official Roman Catholic sources, of what the Roman Catholic Church is now doing in America and what...
...assembly building, looked more like an ice-cream sandwich. Its north and south walls were the ice cream-solid bands of marble. The east and west walls were corrugated expanses of blue-green glass. Each wall consisted of 2,700 windows held by a tracery of aluminum. Their effect, said the FORUM, would be that of "a mosaic reflecting the sky from a thousand facets...
...Thursday, their first day at Red Top. They have had long practice sessions every day since then, confining their rowing to the early morning and late evening. The middle of the day is still being used for final exams, but by tomorrow the full-scale training program goes into effect--20 miles...
...important issues. They have further disturbed the story of a young Negro surveyor alone among white soldiers on a dangerous wartime reconnaissance mission by the inclusion of a series of glib, easily-typed characters, each with a varying degree of racial bias. The result is pat and talky, and effect that remains through to the traditionally "happy" ending. It is hard to believe that a lifetime of acute unhappiness, a lifetime of being treated as something of a freak, and a harrowing combat patrol can be completely wiped out of one's consciousness by a couple of narco-sythesis treatments...