Word: effective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...horseback,' this proposal is it," he intoned. The President, he declared, was trying to set up "a Prussian-type supreme command" that would eliminate military responsibilities of the service Secretaries, grant too great flexibility to the Defense Secretary in spending congressional appropriations-in effect, shut out Congress' watchful eye. "I know of no concept more dangerous...
...chairman of the committee, who made the mistake of observing that one of his subcommittees once recommended that there should be more stability in the technical services of the military establishment. Back came Rickover: "I indict you. You wrote a report and then did nothing to put it into effect...
...charge of a special school which next month will begin to give French officers intensive training in combatting "subversive war." Last week the French army let out one chapter in Bigeard's career that hitherto had been kept secret-the cloak-and-dagger tale of how he, in effect, became commander of a band of enemy terrorists in Algiers' casbah...
...dear writers to see that they didn't all go off in different directions. In London, I was chief of the German Language Section, and it was interesting work. We had to plan radio shows for broadcast to the Germans. Our Prisoner of War shows had a certain effect, I think, near the end when things were going badly for them...
McArthur gave Rohrshach tests to both groups of 44. His conclusions from these tests were that the people leaving were generally emotionally constricted; able to be classified neither as extroverted nor as introverted, merely as having no emotional effect. He describes this person as uncommunicative, as unable to ask for help. "This kind of person does not see the Bureau of Study Counsel, the Psychiatric Services, or see his advisor. If he does go to these places, he only goes once or twice...