Word: effect
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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However, there are several phrases which had the effect on us, while reading them, of sitting down to a delightfully relaxing manicure occasionally punctuated by hot bamboo slivers driven up the nails. The phrase in question is (referring to the score) ". some fairly forgettable tunes...
...Connecticut Congressman Chester Bowles as his principal foreign policy adviser. U.S. Ambassador to India under Harry Truman, and a conspicuous liberal, Bowles advocates a "two Chinas" policy (i.e., the U.S. should cease to recognize the Nationalist Chinese government as the legitimate government of anything but Formosa), which would, in effect, imply recognition of the Red Chinese government in mainland China, and undermine the U.S.'s long campaign to keep Red China out of the United Nations...
...President Eisenhower has devised a simple procedure for dealing with his critics and his defeats: he simply ignores the critics and claims victories. The effect of this is serious in a democracy, for it confuses the public, infuriates the political opposition, and leaves mistakes unexplained and uncorrected. As a political device in an election year, of course, this carries great weight. The President is immensely popular. The public does not like to be told that its Government has made mistakes, and when the President in effect denies that mistakes were made, he no doubt helps restore the political balance...
...reverted to his ordinary gloomy self and even while retracting his lapse into optimism was blaming it on the Eisenhower Administration. Wrote he: "When the U-2 story first broke, it was natural to read very good news into the bad news. The U2's most significant effect in this country was to give a false picture of the continuing power of the American deterrent. As usual, the Administration failed to set the record straight...
...jury was in effect saying: (1) most of the painting submitted was not good; (2) the prevailing style today is "abstract" or "non-representational"; (3) too many of the best local artists are still harboring grudges from previous years and refusing to submit...