Word: affectation
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...will platooning affect youngsters like Howard and Fairly? How comfortably will Gilliam (who has played 150 games a year for ten years) sit on the bench with Moon, Hodges, and Demeter? How freely will Snider swing or Craig throw, worrying about next year's inevitable draft...
Singing is the opposite of Rath's strictured bourgeois life, and it comes to symbolize his rebellion against society. But he fails natively to distinguish between different types of singing; the voices of a boys choir streaming through an open window affect him in essentially the same way as Dietrich's contralto tone. The crudeness of his ear (that is, his immaturity) compels Rath unknowingly to choose total degradation in place of drab respectability...
...focus on business instead of sport was bad enough, but worse was the threat to baseball's sacred records. Obviously, eight additional games will not affect some marks; most pitching records (games won and lost, strikeouts, walks, and shutouts) have not been approached in years, anyway. And Jim Perry of the Indians may take advantage of one or two more starts to set a new record for yielding home runs, but he probably would have made gopher ball history, regardless...
...life of the White House was "very hard" on the children, that she was striving to provide "normal" and "private" lives for them. As for daughter Caroline, "Someday she is going to have to go to school, and if she is in the papers all the time, that will affect her little classmates, and they will treat her differently...
Since this argument offers the prospect of financial increase in the future, it is accepted, though often grudgingly, by those holding the purse strings, both public and private, in Cambridge. It is the residents of the area who will be affected most. In the district that the road will affect, as in the city generally, the population is becoming more static--mostly middle-aged and elderly people. With more attractive residential areas and greater business opportunities elsewhere, the youth of the city is in flight. It is hoped that the new community emerging from the rubble of the Belt Route...