Word: effective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most closely reasoned, carefully pinpointed opinion of the whole desegregation struggle, the Supreme Court last week struck at the massive Southern attempts to avoid compliance with its 1954 integration order. Specifically, the court aimed its opinion at Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus-but its effect would be felt in Virginia and in any other Southern state that had placed hopes for resistance in hedgerows of state laws...
...scientists, the crucial point is this: in all the world, there is nothing like the moon. It is, in effect, a superbly preserved relic of the early days of the solar system, sealed off by space and time from contamination by the germs, clouds, and forms of living matter that have developed on the earth. The danger is, reported the council's Committee on Contamination by Extra-Terrestrial Exploration (CETEX), that heedless exploration efforts may contaminate the moon before it can be properly studied in its virgin state...
...that improbable note, the once-sedate New York Philharmonic last week launched its nyth season. In effect, Lennie was trying to bring the program notes to life, using the technique that he made familiar on his Omnibus music-appreciation series. His explanation: "How many times have you sat there and had a new piece of music thrown at you by Theocritus Schwartz or John Foster Doe and longed for something that would bring the piece closer...
...immoral, threw brickbats. But London's women made the clinic a success. Marie Stopes founded others up and down Britain. Gradually the stone throwing and vilification stopped (though the London Times for a while slapped a ban on ads for her books and clinics, kept it in effect until 1953). Thus far, Married Love has sold more than 1,000,000 copies in a dozen languages. And sexology has marched far beyond the outposts of Marie Stopes. In later years she was more often shocked than shocking. When the late Alfred C. Kinsey brought out his "female volume" (TIME...
...conveys a dynamic power of acting, a demonic possession of the role; and Kim Stanley as Sara shows something of the same fierce stir and brawl. In the role of Con's wife, which O'Neill sentimentalizes a little, Helen Hayes provides a needed counter-effect-a muted violin against the snarl of brass...