Word: effect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...read, with repugnance, the March 10 account of the Italian couple who were declared "public sinners" and, in effect, were deprived of their economic livelihood by their Catholic bishop because they contracted a civil marriage. I do not believe the founder of Christianity established any church for this purpose (slander and coercion...
...From the start the rebel boss had denounced the "electoral farce," refused to nominate a candidate, and insisted that the only way to deal with Batista was violence. Batista also put the friendly U.S. State Department, which had been urging elections on him, in a most unhappy position. In effect, the U.S. policy had now been rejected by all sides...
...First Lord of the Admiralty, the Earl of Selkirk, flew in to observe the joint maneuvers. Next day the representatives of empire received an editorial greeting from the daily Mid-Ocean News, which publishes most official notices and bears the proud subtitle of Colonial Government Gazette. The general effect of this journalistic salute was approximately what might be achieved with a rather large stink bomb at a Government House garden party; the editorial headline read simply, LIMEY, GO HOME...
...town, respected by all and loved by his wife Sarah and their children, David, Mary, Jonathan, Ruth and Rebecca. They eat a Thanksgiving turkey, talk about God and gratitude. Then the disasters strike. Playwright MacLeish stage-manages them deftly with a tabloid editor's eye for sordid shock effect and a flexible poetic line to match. Two drunken soldiers blurt out news of the death of David; a news cameraman snaps a picture of J.B. and Sarah while a reporter is telling them that Mary and Jonathan have been killed in an auto accident; two cops break the news...
...example, the Government lost some $5 billion yearly in revenue when it cut taxes in 1954, but within a year, as the tax cut helped push the boom forward once more, revenue was up $7.8 billion. Those in favor of a tax cut contend that it is a more effective spur than a public-works program. A tax cut can be made fast, putting cash directly into pockets for spending on consumer goods in about two months, thus quickly affecting production. A public-works program takes time to get started, may have no effect until the economy has turned...