Word: effect
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...reporting for alert duty, Lieut. Colonel Dante Bulli and his crew in effect braced themselves at the end of a taut, outstretched spring. The trigger was the rasping sound of a klaxon horn. At any moment, that horn might blow. It could mean that a Soviet nose cone was on its way carrying destruction, and that there were 15 minutes in which to get off the ground and head for preassigned Soviet targets. There would be no time for second thoughts, no room for second-guessing as to whether some button-pusher was running a test. To the SAC alert...
...swift and to the point. If the preferential quota is so onerous, then give it up. The State Department reminded Cuba that her sugar growers "have the same status as U.S. producers." By selling to the U.S. instead of on the world market, Cuba last year got, in effect, a subsidy of "more than $150 million." In addition, a preferential tariff, 20% lower for Cuba than for sugar from other countries, gave Cuban exporters another bonus of almost $8,000,000. Said State: "It would be logical to conclude from Major Guevara's remarks that he considers that such...
...that he will soon climb back into his gaudiest working mufti, agitate his pelvis as of yore ("If I stand still, I'm dead") and "never abandon rock 'n' roll as long as people keep appreciatin' it." But Army rigors had at least one benign effect upon him: he won't regrow his crazy sideburns...
...acrid, violent, percussive work, the concerto utilizes eerie chord clusters and precisely graduated effects of drums and cymbals ("Hit the snare at the rim and move gradually in towards the center," says the score at one point) to produce sounds as weird as anything in the world of electronic music. The first movement in last week's performance built to a climax with express-train power. The quieter second movement gained its effect from the almost somnolent alternation of the piano's sinuous theme with the whisper of a drum, the rasp of a snare, the tinkle...
...heroic identity from a world of regimented boredom and blurring mediocrity. In a sick society, the superman becomes a monster. A trip to the morgue finally opens Gerard's eyes to the monstrosity of Nunne, but not before the reader has suffered much quasi-Nietzschean chatter to the effect that "if a man could kill all his illusions, he'd become...