Word: reacted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Southern Negro movement. What little agitation there is--sit-ins and Freedom Rides--is largely dependent on white opinion in the North and South. The sit-ins were successful bets taken on white opinion--a winning bet, to be sure, but the movement depended on how whites would react. And the Negroes participating in the sit-ins were a narrow group of students and middle class Negroes. Martin Luther King has complained that Negro lower classes--especially tenant farmers and sharecroppers--are apathetic about civil rights and likely to remain so. They are hungry and in need, and getting them...
...Cong headquarters deep in the jungles or on marshy islands. The Vietnamese high command is now listening to a U.S. veteran of Merrill's Marauders who argues for "deep penetration" battalions able to exist for weeks on end in mountains and forest. The Viet Cong are expected to react with well-planned assaults on the new strategic hamlets, but improved communications-each hamlet will have its two-way radio-will bring, within minutes it is hoped, swift reinforcements in the ubiquitous helicopters...
...address, the Secretary took off his glasses, leaned forward on the lectern, and reached into his pocket for some scribbled supplementary remarks. Then he reiterated his earlier point, "the vast importance that our people reach some general understanding of what the complications really are, rather than react from a passion or prejudice or an emotion of the moment." It was this gesture that led many members of the audience to believe to this day that the "Marshall Plan" was an impromptu stroke of genius that the General happened to toss out at the end of his prepared address...
Ethics aside, U.S. involvement is also alarming from a military viewpoint. The Chinese and Russians can hardly react favorably to increasing American military personnel. Indeed, military aid to North Vietnam from Communist bloc countries has grown considerably in the past few months and the Chinese have already made threatening noises. The geography of South Vietnam makes it rather easy for guerillas in the South to receive military reinforcement from the North. The only way then to win the war conclusively would be to eliminate these supply lines. And this would mean fighting in North Vietnam, which could lead...
...This fear in us is deep and indispensable--indispensable when we are climbing mountains or looking out windows, and so deep that we react to its promptings instantaneously and without thought...