Word: affectation
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...part of the extensive "Student Study" program, the project is trying to find out whether Houses affect their occupants differently, especially in terms of career choice, achievement, and "social behavior...
Crosland, president of the New Fabian Society, maintained that entering the Market would have a major psychological effect on Britain, "snapping it out of the feeling that nothing has happened in the last 30 years to affect British economic supremacy...
...Artillery Shell. During Schirra's astronaut training, he built up a reputation as a dedicated, no-nonsense student of the just-born art of space flight. He has kept his sense of humor and some of his youthful mischievousness. but he never lets either affect his job. He hates heroics, and has avoided publicity stunts as much as possible. His last month TV outburst against making "show biz" out of the astronauts (TIME. Sept. 21) underlined a long and strongly held feeling...
...Harlem's Representative Adam Clayton Powell (too soft to inflict permanent damage). Bailey is engaged in a desperate fight in a newly created district against popular Arch Alfred Moore, 39, the state's lone Republican in Congress. Few people thought that Kennedy's speech would affect the outcome. But there was little doubt about one thing: if West Virginians had it all to do over again, they would send Jack Kennedy on his way to the White House...
...have been convened in the 20 centuries of Christian history. The purpose of the Second Vatican Council is what His Holiness Pope John XXIII, who has the Catholic prelate's traditional wariness of words that suggest drastic change, calls an aggiornamento-a modernization. This self-reform will affect the life, the worship and the discipline of every Catholic; just as importantly, it will affect the way the church looks to other Christians, and to the world at large. It is the hope of Pope John, and of many of his bishops, that the Protestant and Orthodox churches will...