Word: effecting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard's withdrawal from NSA "lent a sense of urgency to the report," according to Henry, but was not solely responsible for the changes, He doubted that the withdrawal had produced any effect on the member schools themselves...
Beautiful Name. Every Frenchman, rich or poor, peasant or city dweller, would feel the effect. Without food subsidies the price of bread would rise 6%, milk 5%, macaroni 10%. Without government subsidies to nationalized industries cigarettes, coal, electricity and train tickets would be more expensive. For all veterans, except those over 65 or with more than 50% disability, there would be no more pensions. ("This is to give new value to the beautiful name of veteran," enthused Veterans Minister Edmond Michelet.) For farmers there would be no more subsidies for the planting of olive trees, and there would be higher...
...record jacket. "Play softly, it's cool inside." The menace is not the heat-or lack of it-but the humidity; in a mystifying effort, the record makers have dubbed in sounds of cheetering sea gulls and the tumbling waves of "a mythical Malibu." The Sea-Around-Us effect is unfortunate only because what comes filtering through the combers-in These Foolish Things and I'll Remember April-seems to be a fine and lacily fanciful cocktail piano...
...roles of God and Satan are currently taken by Raymond Massey and Christopher Plummer, respectively. Each of them has one of the most glorious voices of his generation, and each uses it with optimum effect. They are both on stage from beginning to end, though they remain silent for long periods of time. But they know how to project their presence even then, for they are both masters of what Ethel Barrymore has called "perhaps the highest art of an actor--the art of beautiful listening...
...effect this rules change, the liberals will need the support of Vice President Nixon in obtaining a ruling stating that the Senate is not a "continuing body" and is therefore free to adopt whatever rules it wants at the beginning of each Congress. Nixon has already given such an opinion once (in another, similar fight in the 85th Congress) and can be relied upon to stick to his guns. After he rules, the Senate will operate temporarily under standard parliamentary rules which permit closure by a simple majority. Thus the liberals can terminate a filibuster against their anti-filibuster drive...