Word: effective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days after the stakeouts began in the rear of Pilgrim stores and parked cars near by, the story made headlines in the Houston papers. Then Police Chief Herman Short claimed he had heard a rumor to the effect that there would be a $1,000 bounty for each hijacker killed. While Mayor Louie Welch said he had "no objection" to the idea of the squads, Short ordered his men not to moonlight for Wilson-though they may still take such part-time jobs as saloon bouncers. "Houston police," Short declared, "do not hire out as executioners for anybody...
Dutch Demands. At the conference table, De Gaulle also loomed far larger than his fellow conferees. The No. 1 topic was Britain's application for admission to the Common Market. In a ten-minute speech, the French President said, in effect: We are going to have to talk together an awful lot before we decide anything. He called for closer political ties among the Six and proposed another summit meeting some time this year to discuss the problems posed by Britain's desire to join...
...closes and cuts off the flow of air, thus creating the audible hic. To most persons, it is merely annoying. But if it continues for days, it can be seriously weakening, as it was in 1954 for Pope Pius XII. More common and at least as worrisome is the effect on patients undergoing surgery, especially on the torso. The spasms complicate the surgeon's delicate maneuvers; during postoperative recovery, they may well rip open the wound...
Under a law passed in 1940, Polish-born Painter Beys Afroyim forfeited his U.S. citizenship by voting in a 1951 Israeli election. Not so, argued Afroyim all the way up to the Supreme Court. Last week the court upheld him-and thereby made it possible, in effect, for Americans to hold dual citizenship...
Deficit & Discontent. In each case, the teachers' basic demand was for higher salaries. Although a few dioceses-notably San Francisco and New Orleans-pay their laymen salaries that compare favorably with public school scales, the vast majority in effect require teachers to subsidize the schools by personal sacrifice. At Alemany, for example, the starting wage of lay faculty members before the new contract was $4,000 a year, compared with $6,220 at nearby public high schools. In addition, most parochial school systems have painfully inadequate tenure, pension and medical-insurance programs, provide little chance for laymen to advance...