Word: reacted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...important because it works with some facts that other pictures have preferred to ignore. One is that Negroes, like whites, may react to persecution with lead pipes instead of neuroses. Another is that race riots have their own logic, that discrimination is not merely a habit of thought or a result of faulty reasoning. Finally, men fighting for life cannot be exhorted or "educated" to a peaceful adjustment. "Ain't it a lot," says the leader of the colored gang, "asking us to be better than they are, when we get killed trying to be as good...
Appeal. It was the kind of solution that had a strong appeal to a large number of U.N. members, among them some nations that have long been stout U.S. allies. They stood in dread of how Soviet Russia would react if & when Douglas MacArthur drove to the Yalu River, finally stood arrayed 80 miles west of Vladivostok and 185 miles east of Port Arthur...
...paying all the expenses of testing, both for Stone's initial work last fall, and for a check experiment now being run at another Ivy League college by Stone's broth C. Elliott. It hopes to use the data obtained in formulating a test to determine how men will react under pressure of battle...
...tung's government reacted to the U.N. concessions as Communist governments usually react to any signs of weakness. From Chinese Communist Foreign Minister Chou En-lai came a stiff message refusing the U.N. invitation to send delegates to discuss Chinese intervention in Korea. But, in answer to a previous Security Council invitation, Chou agreed to send delegates to discuss what Chou called U.S. "aggression on Formosa." Besides discussing Formosa, Chou suggested, his delegates ought to be given a chance to accuse the U.S. of "armed intervention" in Korea...
...Meduna, who claims 68% success, explains how he thinks it works: in neurotics, the nerve cells are sensitive to abnormally small electric currents, so that they react oftener than they should, or else they react with abnormal severity to ordinary currents. He believes that carbon dioxide reacts in the cells to restore a more normal threshold of sensitivity...