Word: reacted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fascist Alliance was one week old last week. The capitals of the world had had time to digest it, to react. The reactions were various, ranging from frank jubilation in Berlin and Rome to London's grim decision to reopen the Burma Road in the face of a muttered Japanese threat that this would bring war. From Moscow, where the balance of world power now lies, there was no news...
Washington still held to its tortuous course midway between appeasement and action, while the Navy itched for a go at the little yellow men in their big boats (see p. 32). As usual U. S. public opinion was slow to react, because its leaders had as yet to give it clue or cue. The State Department, in this month before election, was even charier than usual of taking a firm stand until it knew what the reaction was. But in Tokyo, where the Government not only informs but makes public opinion, there were many signs that Japan intended to force...
...year's greatest irony was that Britons expected bombs in the year's first days but got them only in the last. Although war caught Britain unprepared, there was no panic. Munich, the most exhausting psychological experience a nation ever endured, had dulled the British capacity to react. The mood of Britain in the first week of September 1939 was utter depression. Win or lose, for better or for worse, the Britain they had known was ended. Instinctively all knew...
Despite restrictions, the House still functions as a market, and its quotations react quickly to good and bad war news. After the Low Countries and France went under, the London Financial Times's index of industrials collapsed to an eight-year low of 61. But the bombings of London, which send the brokers scurrying and are supposed to prelude the end of their world, have not fazed brokers or prices one whit. Last week, while the Stukas dived, the index had completed two months of climbing, was back...
...Viruses do not grow as independent molecules, but enter into a dynamic relationship with their hosts. For example, in certain rabbit tumors, the viruses entrench themselves in a group of cells. The animal's body may react by destroying the cells which harbor the virus. Once the host cells are destroyed, the tumors gradually disappear...