Word: effective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Major Shupe began yelling "Americano! Americano!" No effect. But suddenly, from somewhere in the crowd, he heard the words "New York! Chicago!" Shupe threw his head back and shouted "New York! Chicago! New York! Chicago!" He shouted every U.S. place name he could think of-"Pittsburgh! Kansas City! Kansas City! Boston! Dallas! San Francisco!" And at last the peasants, who perhaps had thought that the airmen were their old enemies, the Turks, fell back. Just before the Soviet military police arrived one of the peasants offered Shupe a drink of water. "Don't ask me why," said he afterward...
...import restrictions: heavily criticized in Canada, the restrictions were aimed to strengthen the U.S.'s defenses by encouraging domestic exploration for oil, were drafted to minimize their effect on Canada (other U.S. officials said that quotas have had no effect on Canadian oil sales...
...Medicine and lately boss of Army medical research, the committee concluded that things are pretty good now, but the explosive expansion of the last decade in outlays for medical research must go on at least until 1970. The goal then: $900 million to $1 billion a year. In effect: no blitz, but a powerhouse drive down the field...
Thomas Hunt Morgan's work won a Nobel Prize, and his laboratory was probably the first in the U.S. to which European scientists and students made serious pilgrimages. Genetic knowledge dredged out of fruit flies had an enormous effect on plant and animal breeding. Geneticists believe that a great bronze statue of a Drosophila. suitably mutated, should be erected in some such place as Iowa, where farm production has been greatly expanded by genetically sophisticated corn...
...change bacteria from one true-breeding strain to another, it may have some similar effect on higher animals, including humans. If such a process is discovered, not much DNA will be needed. The entire supply of DNA that could control the heredity of the next generation of the human species (several billion individuals) could be put in a cube one twenty-fifth of an inch on a side...