Word: effect
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...situation is completely under control," said Verwoerd soothingly, but he acted like a man who feared imminent revolution on a national scale. Before dawn on Wednesday, even before the emergency declaration was fully in effect, his detectives fanned out in simultaneous raids throughout the nation to arrest scores of native leaders and suspected troublemakers. Chief Albert Luthuli, president of the African National Congress and a moderate who had now joined the radicals in advocating pass-burning, was awakened and hauled away at 2 a.m.; soon the police were picking up "dangerous" whites as well, including all the top leaders...
...Bazaar, Photographer Richard Avedon tries to show that all women possess a quality that he calls "The Sphinx Within." With seven international glamour girls as his subjects, Avedon got them to look slinkily feline under a variety of hairdos purporting to be Egyptian. He achieves his most eye-catching effect with Heiress Gloria Vanderbilt, thereby moving another glamorous tigress, New York Mirror Society Chatterist "Suzy" to comment: "When they make her a plain jane on those TV potboilers, they spoil a good thing." Said Harper's Bazaar of Avedon's gallery girls: "They belong to women...
...Rauwolfia drugs from Indian snakeroot (best known: reserpine) stimulate the reticular alertness center and have little effect on the sleep pattern, are therefore less sedative in action. ¶ Meprobamate, in moderate doses, usually has no effect on the alertness center and little on the sleep pattern; its tranquilizing action must work through other parts of the brain...
Alarmed at the invasion of the domestic market, U.S. publishers prodded the State Department to protest. Previous protests against the export of Formosan copies to Asian countries hai little effect. This time the State Department hinted that mutual-security funds earmarked for Nationalist China might be pared by irate Congressmen if the pirating did not cease. The hint did not go unheeded. At week's end the Nationalist government issued a stern order forbidding the export ot reprints from Formosa...
...published in Britain jr America. When his disciple's novel cached Miller, that dithyrambic daddy f all unshy pornographers effused: 'Down with Shakespeare! Down with Jhaucer! I greet Lawrence Durrell as the first Englishman." Even that cool sage, T. S. Eliot, bobbed approval. For Durrell he effect was tonic, "like suddenly hear-ng your own tone of voice...