Word: reacted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...react in just one way to Al Capp's remarks that a prep school is a big gang as vicious as any in New York but without the guts: I'd like to punch Capp in his big leaking mouth. My research into the gangs of New York has failed to turn up a single character who has been willing to address himself to an enemy without a gun, a knife or help-hardly the symbols of guts...
...with urbanized Bantus now 65% literate and developing a middle class of civil servants and teachers, preferences are becoming more sophisticated. Bantus refuse to read or speak Afrikaans, react quickest to English-language advertising. British habits are widely copied: 80% of all hats sold in South Africa are bought by Bantus, who consider a hat the hallmark of English gentility, and three out of four Bantu homes prefer tea to coffee...
...sulfonic-acid group (-SO-OH)-the chemical that is responsible for the cleansing action-onto each long-chain hydrocarbon molecule. This is no easy trick to perform in a practical industrial process, but after years of work Esso chemists finally developed a novel way of making the reluctant chemicals react by jolting them with gamma rays...
...possible, superior. Now Malcolm X, top Eastern torchbearer for the militant movement, could only sneer at Martin Luther King's gospel of nonviolence. Said he: "The lesson of Birmingham is that the Negroes have lost their fear of the white man's reprisals and will react with violence, if provoked. This could happen anywhere in the country today." Last week, at the crest of the crisis, a white Birmingham waitress said to a customer from the North: "Honey, I sure hope the colored don't win. They've winned so much around the South...
...hope that if the Communists ever seize my home I will be able to react with as much courage and effectiveness as that displayed by the Cuban exile groups in attacking Soviet ships...