Word: effective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that night it became clear to Lenin that harassment and threats would not prevent the SR majority from enacting a whole series of resolutions that would have the effect of law. His tactic: an order to the Bolshevik Deputies to walk out of the Assembly. After some hesitation, the Left SRs followed them. In the hall, the sailors and Red soldiers now threw off all restraint. They leaped through the barriers, carried their rifles cocked along the corridors, stormed into the galleries. In their seats the Deputies were motionless, tragically mute. We were isolated from the world, just...
...head of a huge table, he presented the new Cabinet, including eight high officers and five holdovers. They were, he said glumly, designated "in accord with the feelings of the national armed forces." With the new Cabinet came a new Seguridad chief. Significantly, he was a colonel, which in effect gave the army control of Seguridad. Almost at once, 300 youths surged into downtown Plaza Silencio, staged a window-smashing demonstration for liberty for political prisoners. But even before the demonstration the new Seguridad chief freed the five jailed priests...
...Namias, the waves in the planetary wind were feeble and lethargic. The wind blew almost due east across the U.S., and since its energy was not dissipated in zigzag waves, it blew unusually fast; the jet stream, its fast-moving core, was clocked at 170 m.p.h. But the mixing effect of the wind was almost nil. The Arctic kept its cold air and grew colder and colder as its heat radiated into space, while the U.S. stayed warm. The port of Green Bay, Wis. was open for navigation on Dec. 29, the first time since 1877. New England had weather...
...special message, he said in effect that the government must shift its farm policies away from efforts to restrict production to programs designed to move the expanding production into markets...
...Council also hopes, Abrams said, to effect "some sort of all-college unifying attitude," so the Council might "create the feeling that we are needed." In reference to the 1957 Council's frequent inability to gather a quorum, Leland felt that the new Council "would not need encouragement to attend meetings. They all ran for election...