Word: effected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition to the moral issue of depriving needy students of loan money, said the Secretary, it is difficult to assess the political effect of a given institution withdrawing from the program, for the action "might affect some people in a manner not intended...
Lunik III is a small, new member of the earth-moon system, and its big associates can tug at it strongly whenever it gets within range. The effect on its orbit will be greatest whenever Lunik III comes close to the moon, but this will not happen often. Eventually, Lunik may be attracted down to the moon's surface, or perhaps the moon will deflect it into a course that will hit the earth's atmosphere and bring its historic career to a fiery...
...sophisticated; they never spell words out, and use many that are foreign. Their joking is educated, with here a lurking bit of Wordsworth, there a pun on Kyd. They can be most lively when most deadpan, and most deadly when most daft. But their triumph rests on their total effect. Delightful as their songs can be (one is about an Oxford-bred cannibal who no longer likes eating people), the evening would grow a bit becalmed were it not for Flanders' animated patter. And winning as his patter can be-not least his account of the London theater season...
...moisture in the ground to keep the vines fresh. "The leaves are still green as we pick," says one grower. "This means a glycerine content that will give the vintage an exceptional body." Another factor is that the four substandard harvests before this year's harvest had the effect of resting the vines. This summer they surged forward "to make up for lost time...
...Latin America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and the British Commonwealth--we have left ourselves open to the charge that we respect agreements only when they favor us. The U.S. statement claiming that the 1946 settlement applied only to that year is a mere technicality, for in effect it has been observed ever since in the choosing of new members to the Council...