Word: effective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kremlin that the U.S. would forcibly oppose the Communist volunteers, that any rocket attack against Western Europe would trigger instant U.S. air retaliation against the centers of Soviet power (TIME, Nov. 26 et seq.). Now the State Department fired off a tough statement warning the unpredictable Khrushchev, in effect, that the U.S. would not let its ally Turkey and the bigger principle of collective security go down ; it would fight...
Tass, Russian news agency, said it had been authorized to make the statement. This means in effect that it was issuing an official declaration of Soviet policy...
...magnetic field of the earth seems to be too weak to account for this effect," said Hynek. "Gravity explains about 99 per cent of the motion. The extra bit needed to explain the extra perturbation is not gravity, unless the earth has a distribution in mass much different than we have assumed...
...Naval Research Laboratory announced later that "this effect can not be produced by atmospheric drag. It remains to experiment further with various hypotheses which may be expected to supply an explanation...
...folks lead lives of quiet exasperation: a mother dies:a father loses his job; a family moves to another town. No small-town girl herself, Author Winsor (who grew up in Berkeley, Calif.) has caught a few authentic echoes of small-town speech. She quotes Dostoevsky to the effect that "there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome" than "a memory of childhood." But then, Dostoevsky never knew Kathleen Winsor, who makes childhood seem grubby, and sex sound like a bore...