Word: reacted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...afraid that this country might be swamped by people of a different culture. And, you know, the British character has done so much for democracy, for law, and done so much throughout the world, that if there is any fear that it might be swamped, people are going to react and be rather hostile to those coming...
...brings one's own experience to anything...That's what it's all about. One doesn't have to be told how to react, one reacts. And I don't have to force people to feel something...What gets in the way is a mind saying 'Oh, no, that's wrong' or 'that shouldn't be done.' Well, what if you got rid of all those and just said. 'This is what it is. Maybe if I look at it for a while it might grow interesting...
...Harrington, which seeks legislation favorable to industrial states. In newspaper ads proclaiming THE NORTH SHALL RISE AGAIN, Michigan has called for a Great Lakes area "common market." Busbee in turn has been telling colleagues, "We in the South will be eaten alive if we don't wake up and react...
...workers specialize in computer analysis of miles of taped transmissions. The U.S. can scarcely complain; some 4,000 Americans employed by the National Security Agency, CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency and secret private contractors are doing exactly the same thing. Both Soviet and American technicians use advanced computers programmed to react to trigger words; a Soviet analyst, for instance, might sit up straight on coming upon words like Cobra Dane, a new radar installation in the Aleutians, or Trident, the giant U.S. submarine now under construction...
Since the action occurs around 1941, the two audiences react in vastly different ways. The U.S. memory bank of World War II does not contain the traumatic wound dealt the Russians who suffered casualties in the millions at German hands. The valor, the burden and exhilaration of common sacrifice experienced in Russia during those years simply did not exist on the American home front. Thus the bruising flood of memory that Russians bring to Echelon can come from U.S. audiences only in spurts...