Word: effectives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...misdeeds, their testimony would not be used against them as evidence; the police would make every effort to protect them from predictable Triad reprisals; most important of all, they would not be subject to the sweeping new powers that Lee's government was giving the police, which in effect deprive all known criminals of habeas corpus. Confessions from suspicious crooks were few at first, but under constant radio and press warnings to "give up now or face annihilation," more than 800 of Singapore's hoodlums and small fry finally turned themselves in, 200 on the last...
...Republic of Panama." In practice, the U.S. still divides the payroll into categories, some filled mostly by U.S. employees on U.S. pay scales, and the rest filled mostly by Panamanians paid according to Panama pay scales (plus bonuses of 30% or more). When the change went into effect, Panamanian day laborers and artisans were led by politicians to think that they were going to be paid New York-level wages; when they were not, discontent began nagging...
...melancholy truth is that [he] does not stand close scrutiny these days. His bared head has been made indecently white by the birds of the Strand." Booze-hating Sir Wilfrid Lawson: "The pigeons have dealt most unkindly [with him]." Poet Robert Burns: "[His] slight defacement merely has the effect of giving him a tearful left eye." The situation in Parliament Square: "Disraeli, Peel and Derby, with the treetops above them, suffer more than Palmerston and Smuts in the open. Yet Lincoln, behind Disraeli (who is worst afflicted of all), seems avoided by the birds in spite of being near...
...merger went through as planned, will go into effect in May 1961 if ratified by the local churches before next May. But just before the 1,000-odd delegates packed up to go home, a third version was voted. Jesus was still out, but "in the Judaeo-Christian heritage" (instead of "in their essence...
Kintner said, in effect, that there was nothing wrong with television that a little vigilance and a few ex-FBI men could not take care of. He embodied TV's spirit of business as usual and business above...