Word: reacted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interpretation vastly increased the scope of future trials. German and satellite war criminals might total between four and six millions. The physical difficulties involved were staggering. So were the moral and psychological problems. How, for instance, would U.S. and British soldiers react if they were called upon to execute thousands upon thousands of the guilty...
...Captain Kramer. During the month of March, 17,000 people died of starvation, and they still die at the rate of 300 to 350 every 24 hours, far beyond the help of the British authorities, who are doing all possible to save as many as still have strength to react to treatment...
...William Henry Chickering, TIME war correspondent in the South Pacific, filed his last dispatch: "It is my hunch that [the Japs at Lingayen] won't react very favorably, may even retreat to the hills and make our initial success easy. . . ." His hunch was right, but he wasn't there to see for himself. On Jan. 6 he was killed by enemy air action in Lingayen Gulf. He was standing on the bridge of a warship; he and the British liaison officer, General Lumsden (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS), were killed at the same moment...
...potentialities of the present German offensive still remain. The offensive has not petered out, as some experts have blithely written. It is in a secondary stage. We have reacted as the enemy must have expected us to react and he is engaged in holding and trying to beat back our counterattacks. So far we have made little progress in closing his corridor behind him. He is keeping us busy elsewhere on the front and he doubtless made some shrewd calculations as to the reserves we could bring to bear. And if we fail to pinch off his corridor...
Bernice's errand for herself is enough to set anyone thinking with no unconcern about what he is doing on this planet and why. It is very doubtful whether many Army nurses react to their dynamic surroundings in quite the way Bernice does, and it is a tribute to Miss Lawrence's personal charm and utter sincerity of portrayal that matters do not get unconvincing...