Word: effective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...specific recommendations, countermanding sound Court decisions, indicate, that the Association--though not without stormy debate--has allowed itself to be bullied by a committee apparently stacked with rightwing, witch-hunting elements. Each of the five legislative proposals, if enacted, would have the effect of reinitiating a segment of the anti Communist panic campaign of the early...
WRITING: "The news writer is an artist. In its simplest terms, art is the business of selecting for effect-plus skill. The writer is the creative manipulator of the most plastic, the most resistant, the most mercurial and yet the stickiest substance known to man-the written word...
...this was too much for Judge Malcolm E. Douglas. He found Watson in contempt of court, and imposed an unusual penalty: he held Watson in default in the libel suit-which, in effect, ruled him guilty of libel and barred him from participating in the trial or the determination of damages. Judge Douglas said he would determine the damages to be assessed against Watson following a jury trial of the case against the Post-Intelligencer's publishers (Hearst) and three restaurants...
...Williams' discovery, other biologists ransacked nature looking for the presence of the juvenile hormone in other species. Last year Drs. Lawrence I. Gilbert and Howard A. Schneiderman of Cornell University extracted a substance from the cortex of the adrenal glands of cattle. They found it had the same effect on silkworm pupae as the moth hormone. For the first time a hormone extracted from vertebrates was shown to influence the growth of invertebrate insects...
...undeviating loyalty. Romilayu leads Henderson to the Arnewi, a sweet-spirited tribe which lives by the rule of kindness. Their Queen Willatale, a woman of imposing gravity, gives Henderson a hint of the demon that drives him on. She tells him that he has the grun-tu-molani, in effect, the will to live rather than die, and to live more abundantly. In gratitude, Henderson proposes to rid the Arnewi of an infestation of frogs which, according to tribal superstition, is ruining the drinking water for their cattle. Henderson lobs a homemade bomb into the cistern, but Quixote-fashion, blows...