Word: reacted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Milhorat and other researchers have found that in experiments with rabbits the disease may be brought on by withholding vitamin E from the diet, and shut off by giving the vitamin. But humans, for some unknown reason, do not react so simply: they may have plenty of vitamin E in their diets, while their muscles, unable to use it, wither away...
There are still some Americans who believe that any preparations for defense will provoke Russia. They may be right. Nobody can predict with certainty how the Kremlin will react. Men, however, rarely have a chance to act on certainties. They deal in probabilities. The probability is that the Russians will be more likely to attack if the U.S. and its Allies remain in or near their present indefensible condition...
Patience & Impatience. "Opinion in this country has sometimes tended to react in the manner of a stern father in the privacy of his home after his children have publicly embarrassed him. But is the relationship of the U.S. to Latin American nations in fact paternal? Or is it fraternal...
Part of the weight was "low-order" (chemical) explosive to detonate the bomb by driving together its subcritical masses of uranium. Another part was the "tamper"-a casing of metal whose inertia kept the exploding bomb from expanding too rapidly, i.e., before the nuclear explosive had time to react...
...Defensive. Stocky, 69-year-old Bishop Otto Dibelius, chairman of the Council of Evangelical Churches (EKID) in both the Western and Eastern zones of Germany, was as quick to react as he had been against the aggressions of the Nazis. He promptly called on Otto Grotewohl, Minister-President of the Eastern German government, and presented documented evidence of Communist oppression of clergymen, church welfare groups and devout laymen. Grotewohl dismissed Dibelius' evidence as "insufficient." Other Soviet officials suggested that clergymen who did not support the Communists' "national front" should be severely punished. Bishop Dibelius' next move...