Word: effecting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...couple of tough-looking hoodlums with police records who lingered ominously in the background. Leonard got threatening phone calls ("It'll be with a pipe wrapped in a paper sack. You'll never know what hit you"). He testified that Carbo called too. said "something to the effect that 'You're going to get hurt. We're going to make an example of you.' " After the hearing, police were assigned to guard Leonard whenever he left home...
Judge Hooper's decision, which keeps the schools open, is intended to "clarify the issues"-in effect, to challenge the state law. Said he: "Even the most ardent segregationists in the land, though bitterly opposed to such ruling, now recognize that segregated public schools are not permitted...
Pomeroy and Sutton are guarded about the effect their filters will have on international networks for detecting underground nuclear tests. They calculate that six stations equipped with the new instruments could detect most underground disturbances anywhere on earth that have the energy of a "nominal" (20-kiloton) nuclear bomb. Between 20 and 50 stations (v. the presently postulated 180) would be required not only to detect but also locate such disturbances. They are not prepared to estimate just how many more would be required to detect explosions of bombs as small as 5 kilotons or how accurately they could distinguish...
...from leading poor sinners into despairing hedonism, this stern doctrine had the opposite effect; Geneva became a city in which everyone was trying to prove himself chosen for salvation, and Calvin set up a city administration that was designed to keep Genevans on the straight and narrow. In groups of ten, Geneva's citizens were summoned to swear fealty to a 21-article confession of faith; church and state had separate powers, but in Calvin's theocracy no citizen of the state could be outside the authority of the church. The most famous of his opponents, Michael Servetus...
...seduce the evangelist's wife. After that, the book turns into an old-fashioned game of musical beds: George's wife, learning of the affair, permits herself to be seduced by his oldest friend; the friend's mistress comforts herself by propositioning George. The only perceptible effect of this frenetic activity is that it puts an end to George's marriage just about the time he is discovering that if he loves anybody at all it is most probably his wife. The evangelist, confronted by George in a final bleating fit of frustration, poses the question...