Word: react
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...these so different political offenders react last week upon being pressingly invited to jail...
...author and her heroine, between whom it is hard to distinguish, have one rare thing in abundance. They have race. They react sharply and lastingly to experiences like Sara Spain's (the heroine's) rescue from the surf by Siercy Hodd, her sweetheart and lover in lazy, lovely Georgia. They abominate the starched prosiness of the northern Haskell clan into which Sara marries, but they are game. After screaming, "Hop-toads!" at elder Haskells, they apologize...
...battle between Progress and Superstition, whether it be one of the old historic duels of Feudalism and Enlightened Democracy or one of the more recent tilts between Biology and Fundamentalism. What a tyrannical ruler is custom! When it comes to changing a folkway, Timbuktu, and New York react in exactly the same manner...
...brain in which conscious thought takes place-the cortex. The cat thus operated upon by Dr. Cannon lacked many normally automatic responses to stimuli. A fearsome object, as a dog, did not make it bristle its fur in either fright or anger; its body temperature did not react to counterbalance changes of room temperatures. The experiment thus proves surgically what pharmocologists have long known from the effects of certain drugs (atropin, nitrate, pilocarpin, morphin), what mothers have learned empirically from the rages and frights of their children...
...President Coolidge's proposal was cheered loudly. When the vigorously Democratic New York World hails a Coolidge memorandum as "timely and statesman-like," the nation can be assured that it is no mere political gesture. Most members of Congress backed the President, but doubted that Europe would react favorably. Hostile skepticism came from Senator Reed of Missouri: "It is intended as a stop to fill the gap left at the Washington conference, but I don't think it will get anywhere. It is also aimed at the three-cruiser program now being discussed in Congress...