Word: reacted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doctor abruptly announces, "This is cancer," his patients will react in many ways. Eight out of ten, says Dr. Lund, might consent to surgery but "of these half might never forgive the doctor for his brutality." One patient out of ten might "believe erroneously that cancer is never cured and therefore decide to have no treatment. The other might be so upset mentally that [he] leaves the doctor and goes to a charlatan in whose hands all hope of cure will be lost...
...pain was not only tolerable (in normal deliveries) but was "lost . . . in a kind of ecstasy and pride. . . ." His analysis of feminine psychology borrows from Dr. Helene Deutsch of Boston, a temperate Freudian who notes in her two-volume Psychology of Women that an "increasing number of women" react strangely to the "perfect painless delivery" produced by modern anesthetics. They feel cheated, disappointed and "empty," sometimes think the baby is not theirs but that of another woman...
...week of confusion was not a conclusive test of 1) how free markets might work out now, or 2) how U.S. consumers would react in the long run to increased prices. It neither proved nor disproved the country's fear of inflation when controls went...
...languages, religions, what people eat and drink-and how they treat their mothers-in-law. If you know the culture patterns of India, how the Bengalese feel about the Burmese, and the Burmese about the Kachins, and which hate the British, you can guess pretty accurately how India will react to a Jap attack. That is applied political science...
European nationalism in the mid-20th Century had reached a pitch which forced Jews to react with a desperate nationalism of their own. But between them and a Palestine refuge stood another offshoot of European chauvinism, the awakened nationalism of the Arab states and their new instrument, the Arab League. Only superficially was the current Zionist issue the same as before the war. On both sides the pressures had become many times as intense and explosive...