Word: effect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exact measure of the effect of Maverick Lee's intervention, Utahans will have to wait until the November general election. Even admirers of the Lee brand of political intransigence give him only an outside chance at best of beating Arthur Watkins...
...telephones of his fellow Teamster executives, Tough Guy Hoffa is gaining new strength day by day. Teamster membership is up (to more than 1,500,000), and Hoffa is setting up deals right and left with A.F.L.-C.I.O. unions, such as the brewery workers, butchers and carpenters, the effect of which is to undermine the strength of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. He even has in mind calling a new Teamster convention so that he can divest himself of the three court-appointed monitors who are presiding over the promised Teamster cleanup, which is still in the promise stage...
...trouble digging up talented drummers, found that most of his sidemen (average age: 23) had a classically oriented training: "They kept giving me the blue-serge treatment. I had to work hard to get that rough-tweed effect." Language was a problem too; Brown's instructions to a sax man, for instance, were delivered to a trombonist, who translated them to a trumpeter, who again translated them for the confused saxophonist. The situation was further complicated by the fact that Brown's band was to play mostly new works, especially commissioned for the festival, e.g., John La Porta...
...Butterflys ("I am guilty," he wrote, "but it is my destiny that I must be guilty"), and Elvira was driven to following him, dressed as a man. As a last resort, she slipped camphor in her husband's pocket on the theory that it had a debilitating effect and would diminish his ardor. It didn't. Finally, when he was 50, Elvira unjustly accused a servant girl of being his mistress, drove her to suicide - and Puccini to a frenzy of remorse. When he died in Brussels at 65 after an operation for cancer of the throat...
...those extraordinary simplicities that can revolutionize a whole field of science. Mendel's observations proved that inside the cells of plants-and presumably animals too-is a mysterious mechanism, incredibly small, that rules heredity in accordance with precise mathematical laws. In 1866 Mendel published a paper to this effect in the proceedings of the Brünn Natural Science Society, but nothing happened. The world was not ripe for his ideas. In 1868, when he was appointed abbot of his monastery, his scientific career came...