Word: effect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lange, this was somewhat confusing. Fortnight before, the U.S. had in effect torpedoed the efforts of Sweden to get Norway and Denmark to join in a neutral Scandinavian bloc, which would have no ties to the Atlantic pact. It had been Sweden's hope that the U.S. would arm such a bloc. But the U.S. replied that its arms would go first to the nations joining up in the Atlantic pact...
...years the Protestants have magnified the effect of their strength by a shrewd drawing of district boundaries, to pile up the votes where they counted the most. The Catholic party bitterly resented such gerrymandering. "See that woman pushing her pram up the hill with two babies and bundles, and her pregnant?" asked a Londonderry Republican. "Those houses she's going to could have been put up down below on as level a piece of land as ever you saw, but it might have risked a Unionist majority, to put working-class Catholics in that district." He snorted...
...first LoPresti story was headlined GIRL SLAIN, with a subhead "Senator Charges," LoPresti accused Dr. Van Waters of attempting to hush up the "murder," and produced a pathetic statement from the girl's parents to the effect that the "victim" wanted desperately to live, and could not have committed suicide. LoPresti himself stated that he had seen signed statements about beatings the girl was alleged to have received, "and about what happened in Dr. Van Waters' little iron curtain empire on the day of the murder." But in spite of certain dubious evidence that LoPresti produced in the American, even...
...best measure of RIAS's effect is the reaction of the Communists, who have made a sneering pun on Heimlich's name; they call him "Der unheimliche Mr. Heimlich [the uncanny Mr. Canny]." Periodically the Russians try to jam RIAS: habitually the Soviet press screams against it. But every week, more than 1,000 letters pour into RIAS from the Soviet zone. From Jena and Leipzig, Dresden and Potsdam, as well as Berlin, the letters urge RIAS "to keep up the fight...
...last week announced his retirement, to take effect at the end of the 1949-50 season...