Word: reacted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like a responsible political leader. His is the familiar nightmare of how in about five years the Soviet Union will have achieved atomic armaments so great that the free world will "become paralyzed and immobilized by the realization that the United States and the Soviet Union could act and react upon one another with overwhelming devastation." When this atomic stalemate is reached the Soviet Union will "seek to take over the peripheral nations bite by bite...
Once the bonds had been explained, many baffling mysteries were solved, and many new weapons appeared in the lockers of the chemists. Now they could predict how a substance would react even when they had no sample of it. They could handle with new assurance the complex organic molecules, whose atoms are arranged like submicroscopic lace in chains, rings and branches. Out of the new techniques grew enormous industries -drugs, plastics and synthetic fibers...
Except for coming to look, the Russians failed to react visibly at first to the fact that Cinerama had stolen the show at the fair. Then the reaction came. They rented a downtown theater and offered free round-the-clock showings of Russian films. The pro-Communist newspaper Barada announced loftily that "Russia has had Cinerama for 20 years. In fact, Cinerama was invented in Russia and the Americans stole the patents...
...with a mixed feeling of revenge and morbid curiosity that we put sociological tactics to use in determining how the Harvard element would react if suddenly placed in our shoes (green suede). Donning our best overalls we approached ten or eleven of the more proper looking specimens up for the football game and rendered an oral examination consisting of one question: "Are you from Harvard...
...think history will conclude that democracy as an institution was exterminated, like the dodo and the passenger pigeon, because it was unable to anticipate trouble with intelligent action; it could only react blindly like a jellyfish when stimulated by immediate contact...