Word: effect
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...August 1958, when 37-year-old Kurt Sumpf opened a café in the little town of Köppern near Frankfurt, he performed what was in effect a silent act of faith in the "new" democratic Germany. The son of Jewish refugees from Nazi persecution, Sumpf had chosen to return to Germany after spending most of his life in Israel...
Trujillo's turnabout was a nose-thumbing answer to the U.S. Government and the Roman Catholic Church, which have been pressing him to democratize his regime (TIME, Feb. 15 et seq.). In effect, Trujillo said to each: If it is democracy you want, let us start by restoring the rights of a group you dislike...
...Masters. Then in 1955, "I began to look outside, to look around me, and I got involved with this whole area down here on the Lower East Side." As in City Life II, her colors are pounded into every available space, her strokes seem committed out of rage; the effect is one of extraordinary power...
...dissenting opinion, Justice Tom Clark said the court was in effect telling the railroads they must first go to the unions before abolishing surplus jobs. "Everyone knows what the answer will be," complained Clark, and quoted some homey doggerel to make his point. "It is like the suitor who, when proposing to a young lady, was told by her to go to father...
...evocation of the author's home soil and the wit with which Novelist Lampedusa can describe the single-minded gluttony of hungry rustics or the lethal chagrin of a jilted woman ("she wanted to kill as much as she wanted to die '"). But Lampedusa's subtlest effect is to write prose that seems to be aged in marble and encrusted with the patina of antiquity. Like a statue or a ruin, the book congeals a moment of time past and makes it timeless...