Word: affectation
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When the idea for the organization, according to Stone, was first presented to the members of the Harvard Square Businessmen's Association, "most of them approved of it outright. A few wanted to know how it would affect them. They were afraid the HSA would become some sort of monster...
Another Time, Another Place (Lanturn Productions; Paramount) should provide an answer to one of Hollywood's most pressing questions: How will the recent scandal about Lana Turner's private life affect her public appeal? At a preview of this picture, when Actress Turner's name flashed on the screen, cheers rocked the galleries. The picture itself might more suitably be greeted with groans, but it is just the sort of soap opera that can be useful in laundering a reputation...
...representative of the George A. Fuller Company, contracted to build the new House, refused to comment last night on the union's action and whether it would affect the construction work. Construction of Quincy House was stopped for a three-week period at the start of April by a strike of laborers and hod-carriers...
Last month's strike also stopped work on the Cambridge Electron Accelerator, the Center for International Legal Studies, and the Geographical Institute. It is not known at present whether this new strike will affect these projects immediately...
...voyage of the Golden Rule Bigelow says: ". . . men are bound by old patterns of feeling, thought, and action. The organs of public opinion are almost completely shut against us. It seems practically impossible, moreover, for the ordinary person by ordinary means to speak to, and affect the action of, his government. . . . It is only by such acts as sailing a boat to Eniwetok and thus 'speaking' to the government right in the testing area that we can expect to be heard...