Word: effected
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...prevail in that struggle, Rusk believes, the U.S. needs only to remember, in effect, that the Eagle has two claws. The U.S., he says, "is not a raft tossed by the winds and waves of historical forces over which it has little control. Its dynamic power, physical and ideological, generates historical forces; what it does or does not do makes a great deal of difference to the history of man in this epoch...
Changing Flags. For three days the battle lines shifted. Desertions were commonplace and simple to effect; a soldier of uncertain mind had only to change the red arm band of the Kong Le faction for the white band of General Phoumi. Anxious to please, shopkeepers waved red or white flags as the tide of battle wavered...
...party government still calls itself revolutionary and acts the part by occasional nationalization of foreign private enterprise. Last week President Adolfo López Mateos was onstage in full revolutionary uniform as a $26 million plan to buy out 365 of Mexico's leading cinemas went into effect. The intention: to clip the wings of the theater owner, U.S. Citizen William O. Jenkins, 82, a mysterious buccaneer-businessman who has built the biggest personal fortune in Mexico, a money pile estimated anywhere from $200 million to $300 million...
...South the weather had a different effect. After a November increase of 8%, Miami Christmas sales lagged until chilly weather last week stirred shoppers into a buying mood. Atlanta retailers gloomily expect Christmas sales to be off some 15%. The lunch-counter boycotts are keeping Negroes away; fear of disturbances is restraining white shoppers...
...moments when film splices cause things that have been a dusky yellow to become suddenly spotless white. Now and then it is overdone, as in the opening time-sequence shot of a flower blossoming (time sequences were invented by Walt Disnovsky in the early 1900's), but the general effect is moving...