Word: effectively
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Hang Me! Hang Me!" Throughout the trial, Alfred Noack tried his best to promote the same argument in his daughter's defense. "She's absolutely insane," he told newsmen. "She doesn't want to go on living." He brought an affidavit to the same effect from Yvette's mother in Brooklyn. "She was always high-strung when she was a girl," wrote Mrs. Noack. "She had a lot of crying spells. She had tantrums. She acted like a nut." At 15, the girl had run away from home, had lived with a middle-aged merchant...
...streets and circulated defiant petitions; they held meeting after meeting. In their spare time, Ligue members went around ringing doorbells to press their drive. Last fortnight, powerful support came from Lake Success, New York: in an ornately worded note to the Haitian government, the United Nations inquired, in effect, when the Haitians were going to get around to letting their women vote as full citizens...
...system that alcohol, the depressant, masquerades most successfully as a stimulant. Small doses give the drinker "a feeling of well-being and increased self-confidence, but unfortunately with a loss of judgment and the ability of self-criticism." The apparent stimulation is the result of alcohol's narcotic effect on the inhibitions.*Its depressant action operates first on the higher centers of the brain (the "super-ego"), which "are responsible for acquiescence to the habits of civilization." The dulling of responsibility allows the more primitive parts of the brain to dominate the drinker's actions...
...fallacy of the stimulating effect of alcohol is greatly enhanced," the Journal sadly and soberly concludes, "by the drinker who is convinced that he is performing better when he is under the influence . . . This apparent stimulation [has been aptly compared] with a car on a hillside. Alcohol releases the brakes but does not cause the car to run better...
...last week, Wayne Coy, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, said: "Our files of letters protesting crime programs are bulging." Noting the fondness of radiomen for charts and graphs, he offered some statistical guidance. More than 300 pediatricians, sociologists, neuro-psychiatrists and psychologists, said Coy, were questioned on the effects of crime programs. The results: 90% said such shows had a bad psychological effect on children; 93% said radio thrillers and programs ending in suspense had a bad effect; 81% agreed that present-day radio programs contribute to children's delinquency or antisocial behavior...