Word: effective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...difficult to assess just what effect, if any, the Harvard crew had on the U.S. team or on the American public. One less committed oarsman commented, "The leaders had an inflated idea of their own importance. I don't think there were any significant effects of our stand...
...controversy have any effect upon the boat's performance...
...Humphrey-Muskie Administration would never be indifferent to the fate of Czechoslovakia. We must act now to restrain future incidents by making it clear to the Soviet Union that future invasions of independent countries will have an adverse and chilling effect on ending the cold war. It is to the advantage of the Soviet Union as well as to our advantage to reduce tensions and military budgets. This, we must emphasize, can never be more than a hope if Russia insists on doctrinaire subservience--at gunpoint--from its client states...
...television announcement came after an hour-and-a-half White House meeting with top diplomatic and military advisers, and confirmed recent speculation that such a decision was in the offing. The bombing halt takes effect at 8 a.m. EST today...
...therefore susceptible to the god's vengeance. But as Mayer has staged it, the real change is postponed to the intermission, and Pentheus agrees to Dionysus's offer only out of intense curiosity. As a result, when Pentheus finally does go mad, a scene Russom overplays a little, the effect is unconvincing...