Word: effective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into a girl whom I might as well call Betsy, because that's her name. I was growing acclimated and she was on the brink of complete collapse. "You can't build a legitimate movement on coercion and violence. "she said. or words to that effect. Betsy allowed as how she was attending classes regularly for the first time she could remember, now, during the strike, to show that people other than fascists cared about such things as freedom of movement. By way of being sympathetic, I went with her to a class of Oscar Handlin's that turned...
Dean of the College is in effect the number three position-after President of the University and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences-in the administrative hierarchy which reaches down to undergraduates...
...there are two distinct sets of reasons for seizing, striking, occupying, acting-radicalism and romanticism. The two sets are easily identifiable: the first is associated with words like "demands," or "grievances" or "conscience," the second is associated with any words other than "reasons," with words which deny cause-and-effect. I use the word "reasons" only because I have no other, and that should reveal to you the type of person...
...with them." He suggests that recipients of a computerized bill destroy the returnable portion, then mail back a check together with a note explaining what they have done and why. When paying utility bills, Matusow advises doing it promptly-but overpaying or underpaying by a penny or two. The effect, he says, is to send an unsophisticated computer into a state of hysteria...
...prose as it must have been to the watching boy. "The spider drew the quivering baby to him and sank his long, curved mandibles into its back. The baby gave two minute, almost inaudible squeaks as it writhed briefly in the hairy embrace of the spider. The poison took effect, and then the spider turned and marched off, the baby hanging limply from his jaws." Happily, Durrell refrains from following this description with a bloodless dissertation on the importance of nature's balance. He is far too humane not to have been on the side of the bird. Indeed...