Word: affectation
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...lower calls should not significantly affect this year's seniors and first-year graduate students, who become draft-eligible in June. Their induction may be a month or two later, but nearly all of them will still be called...
...proposed measure is all the more inane for its discriminatory quality: it can affect only those students who are unable to pay for their own education, and will leave the rest untouched. Unable to punish the rich students involved in campus disruptions, Congress has apparently decided to crush the poor ones...
They took the risk. The police entered and created the shock that the demonstrators had not been able to provide by themselves, the force needed to affect the "consciousness" of the majority. Student activists are going to remember this lesson for a long time. Once you get in, it's a bummer to get you out. So will President Kirk, wherever he's going to be in a year...
...adolescent marshmallow bogs of homosexual passion. "Duncan Grant is the full moon of heaven," he wrote to Maynard Keynes, who was one of his earliest friends and confidants. In fact, Keynes was something more. Holroyd discloses that like Strachey, Keynes was a homosexual and a frequent rival for the affections of winsome young men; it was a proclivity that did not affect Keynes's later standing as one of the world's great economists...
...Hartnett. All three won positions on the committee, but the Danehy slate won a majority of the seats. All in all, the results in these five wards jolted the older politicians. The McCarthy vote had some influence in Wards 9 and 10, but otherwise it did not greatly affect the elections. The ward constituencies that would support McCarthy--7 and 8--had no contests for their committees...