Word: effect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...glad to see that someone in the Methodist Church cares enough about it to effect some much-needed changes in its liturgy. I say hurrah for the Rev. Bliss Wiant...
...high cards in the world economic battle but loses too many tricks because it has no policy objectives beyond survival. One of capitalism's proudest achievements, foreign aid. should be building the foundations of the kind of orderly economic world that the U.S. wants, instead has lost its effect because it is understood as being essentially antiCommunist...
...entwined are the destinies of all the world's nations in 1959 that a bold new initiative by one of the superpowers has something like the effect of a lucky shot on a pinball machine. Last week, as a consequence of Dwight Eisenhower's historic decision to invite Khrushchev to the U.S., lights were flashing and bells ringing all around the globe...
...Throwing his fork ball with its usual effect, cold-eyed Reliever Elroy Face of the Pittsburgh Pirates stopped a rally in the eighth, but gave up two runs in the ninth to lose to the Dodgers, 5-4, dropped his first game since May 30, 1958, and snapped a 22-game winning streak. Cracked Face, as he regarded his 17-1 record: "Well, Walter Johnson lost...
...that human beings become emotionally disturbed, not because of their having done anything palpably wrong, but because they instead lack insight. We have set out to oppose the forces of repression and to work for understanding. [This leads to] the discovery that the patient or client has been, in effect, too good, that he has within him impulses. especially those of lust and hostility, which he has been unnecessarily inhibiting. And health, we tell him, lies in recognizing and expressing these impulses...