Word: affectation
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...most present indications, Californians this November will vote to repeal the Rumford Act and place into their state constitution Proposition 14. The great imponderable is how much the issue will affect national and state Republican candidates...
There are even a few "tape-recorder youth," so named because they secretly tape Western jazz and popular music unavailable in Bulgaria. They affect trim Ivy League suits, drink "worker's brandy" (cheap, sweet vermouth), read such Western authors as Hemingway and J. D. Salinger, and furtively swap anti-regime jokes-despite the fact that Bulgaria alone among the European satellites still jails such jokers...
First, beginning in early October, Ford will ask the department chairmen to evaluate the report on relatively narrow grounds; how does it affect their own domain? By seeking the counsel of the department heads first, Ford will be able to anticipate the significant objections and qualifications of the report's most likely critics...
Then, too, some voters are concerned lest Percy's Christian Science attitudes affect his public policies, particularly in the field of health and welfare. Percy's reply: "In matters of personal health, I don't see doctors and I don't take drugs. But on the occasions it's required-for insurance, for school and so forth-the children are seen by a pediatrician. All of us, of course, see a dentist or an eye doctor. If Loraine breaks an ankle or falls from a horse, she has the ankle set by a doctor...
...deep-dyed Southerner, no one has ever before accused him of letting that affect his judgment of baseball players. One of Dark's first acts on taking over the Giants in 1961 was to end the practice of "pairing," by which Negroes and whites were not permitted to share the same locker. He has used as many as seven Negro and Latin American players in a single game's lineup. Negroes and Latin Americans have displaced several established players on the Giants-Negro Jim Ray Hart for Jim Davenport at third base, Puerto Rican Jose...