Word: effected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Election Year 1958. Thus TIME'S editors could: ¶ Interpret the true significance of two Democrats who got drowned in an otherwise all-Democratic tide in Massachusetts, see THE NATION, Moderate Mandate. ¶ Show how the least publicized of all the elections might have the longest-lasting national effect, see box, Election Scorecard. ¶ Give an intimate account of the sort of political organization that changed the face of the political map, see MINNESOTA, Victory by Organization. ¶ Find Republicans who thought they saw a new Moses, see REPUBLICANS, And Then There Were...
...first-half recession and its jittery aftermath was a basic cause of Republican defeat, especially in such still-troubled spots as West Virginia, Michigan, Ohio and Indiana. Effect of the recession issue: Democratic congressional leaders, apparently willing to go slow as long as recovery continues, will be standing by to start priming the pumps as never before the moment the economy turns down...
...result, the Dwight Eisenhower who led the Republican Party to power in 1952 saw the G.O.P. sink to its lowest ebb (see map) in decades this year. And perhaps the most significant effect of the 1958 election was that for all practical purposes, it ended the Eisenhower Crusade. President Eisenhower had failed in the task of remolding his party in his own winning image. Because of that failure, for the rest of his term he would have to fight hard merely to keep his accomplishments from being rolled back...
British doctors had been debating how to dramatize the cause-and-effect relationship between smoking and such premature deaths, and Dr. Lister knew just what to do. On the death certificate, on the line for "cause of death," he wrote: "Carcinoma (cancer) of bronchus due to excessive smoking." This was unheard of. The registrar harrumphed, refused to accept the certificate. That meant there had to be an inquest-before Coroner R. Ian Milne, a layman who happens to be an unreformed smoker, Cried Milne: "I would take issue with any doctor who used such a term as 'excessive...
...music be only sweet?" In this work, as never before, Menotti proves himself essentially a 19th century composer. At its worst, the Golovin score is not only too sweet but too facile. Example: when the hero stomps up and down waiting for the heroine to keep a rendezvous, the effect is reminiscent of "suspense music" on a TV show. At its best, the score is hauntingly tender and compelling, notably in a trio, which has the cast's three women sit and sew-three fates each busy with separate and private memories...