Word: react
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Christ und Welt. "Our newspaper publishers who sit on the D.P.-A. board should realize that they are doing exactly what Ulbricht and his henchmen are doing in the East Zone." Said Düsseldorf's Jewish Allgemeine Wochenzeitung last week: "We wonder how young German democracy will react to this attack against basic principles." Said Das Freie Wort, official organ of the generally conservative Free Democratic Party: "We are alarmed at this attempt to subjugate an independent news agency to party interests...
...played the game so honorably that its teams have won 24 games, lost 20. But to his astonishment, Thompson soon learned that football is no laughing matter-even at Brown. His phone rang night and day with anonymous threatening calls from sullen students. Curious to see how Brown would react to more balloon pricking, Thompson stuck tongue farther in cheek, called for the abolition of the Navy and the FBI. His phone jangled louder than ever...
...First to react to the villa's imminent destruction was France's Cercle d'Etudes Architecturales, which set up a cry of "Save the Savoye," then took the case to famed Art Critic André Malraux, Minister of State in charge of cultural affairs in the De Gaulle government. A storm of protesting cables came from British, Brazilian and U.S. architects, and at week's end the deluge of cables and letters was having its effect. Malraux's ministry announced that the villa would almost certainly be spared. The Ministry of Education was urged...
Unemployment, the No. 1 U.S. economic problem, is still failing to react to the gains in the rest of the economy. So the latest figures from the Commerce and Labor departments showed last week. The jobless in February rose 25,000, to 4,749,000, while employment also increased 16,000, to 62,722,000. The rate of unemployment, seasonally adjusted, rose from 6% of the labor force, where it has stood so far this year, to 6.1%. Ordinarily, so small a change would be discounted; it could be a statistical error. What worried economists was the failure of employment...
...also attacked "the American feeling that we must propose compromises in any negotiations." He pointed out, "we are always mystified when the Soviets react haughtily to our proposals; we do not understand that they are not satisfied with normalcy and that they often see our proposals as signs of weakness...