Word: effect
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Raleigh five-and-dime, the short-order demonstrations seemed headed toward an orderly solution in the courts. But the resolute young Negroes were prepared to sit it out until a solution was reached-and there was only one reasonable solution. Said the Raleigh News and Observer: "In effect, he [the Negro] was cordially invited to the house but definitely not to the table. And to say the least, this was complicated hospitality. You can't have your chocolate cake...
...generally understood by Orthodox rabbis as forbidding contraceptive devices, on the ground that users commit the sin of Onan, who "spilled [his seed] on the ground." But how about oral contraceptives in pill form? Rabbi Tendler's answer: oral contraceptives are permissible. But the effect of some of the pills now used (in experiments in Puerto Rico, for instance) is to reduce the hormone level in a woman, which in turn may result in constant minor bleeding from the uterus. The law forbids sexual intercourse with a woman who is nidah (menstruous); therefore intercourse would be wrong...
...traditionally most potent fever fighter has been quinine. Thanks to its long and distinguished history as the only effective weapon against the recurrent fevers of malaria, quinine is still highly regarded in Europe and among many older Americans (especially in the recently malarial South) for treating fevers. Last week, in Munich's Medizinische Wochen-schrift, Dr. Wolfgang-Dietrich Müller damned quinine with the results of a study on thousands of patients in Bielefeld. Among those who took quinine pills at the first sniffle, Asian flu was five to ten times as common as among those...
Excluded Placebo. Caution personified, Dr. Baronofsky would make no precise claims for benefit to these patients because none has been observed for longer than a year. It is important, he noted, to rule out the "placebo effect"-many heart patients feel better if they only think that something has been done. Dr. Baronofsky has devised a method, which he would not disclose, to get around this difficulty. He is also comparing irradiated patients with others who have had heart surgery...
...Kurnitz from his Broadway farce (TIME, Nov. 3, 1958), is unfortunately not very funny. For one thing, when Actor Brynner sets out to tickle the funnybone, he practically breaks the spectator's arm. For another, Kurnitz' shock gags require the physical presence of the actors for their effect. But in the film version the actors are not actually there, the shock often fails to come through, the laughs often fail to come off. Still, there are a few bits of memorably daffy backchat (Trustee's son: "Mother has a head on her shoulders." Agent who knows...