Word: effect
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Republican party chieftains were staggered by the effect of the first debate. Knowing that Nixon had been a champion debater in high school and college, recalling his easy platform conquests in his California campaigns for House and Senate, Nixon men had confidently expected their man to give Kennedy a decisive trouncing. Nixon himself was less cocky. He had debated with Kennedy on a public platform back in 1947, when they were both freshman Congressmen, and recalled him as a tough antagonist. "Everyone expects me to wipe up the floor with this guy," Nixon said before the first debate...
...there was still the fraud charge to be dealt with. "It is quite impossible to shut one's eyes to the fact that during the whole intervening period of those charges, you have been obtaining ?2 week by week," the judge said sternly to Mrs. Harvey. "In effect you have swindled Mr. Knight of something like ?2,000 . . . You will go to prison for 15 months...
...effect of such a role exchange on the couple's sexual compatibility, says Dr. Linden, is disastrous: "Although sexual relations with the husband may have been reasonably satisfactory early in the marriage, they deteriorate into a mere 'chore' or 'duty' for the wife . . . Stripped of his aggressiveness, the husband becomes a passive partner; he loses interest in making the sex act satisfying for his wife. He wants her to seduce him.'' Sexstarved, the frigid woman often gravitates into extramarital affairs, from which she gains intense sexual enjoyment. "There is nothing organically wrong with...
...agreement, the world standard of measurement. Around the globe, other countries had copies of the bar at Sèvres, and their traditional units of length-feet (3.28 to a meter), versts, li, or whatever -were defined by reference to it. But last week the sacred bar was in effect tossed on the scrap heap. A General Conference on Weights and Measures, meeting at Paris, made a wave length of light the new official standard of length. The meter is now denned as 1,650,763.73 wave lengths of the orange-red light given off by electrically excited krypton...
...Substituted a 10,000-word statement on Holy Communion for the 250-word statement in effect for 20 years. The new policy, which will guide 4.872 United Lutheran pastors, tentatively opens the door to celebration of Communion with Protestants of other denominations...