Word: reacted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...evil, secret noise. You will hear the scream, and someone else will tell you that it wasn't a scream, it was a kettle whistle; and no one will be sure if there ever was a scream, until a body lies in evidence. How is the citizen-listener to react? Rush wildly through the corridors until the sound is unmistakable? Push open some stranger's door to confront some stranger's scream? Much courage is required for that. Much recklessness as well. The helplessness you feel in such situations is dizzying; and even when you act, someone in power...
...didn't play as well as we're capable of playing," Coach Nita Lamborghini said. "Princeton is a good team and we didn't get into the flow of the game like we wanted to. We didn't react to what they were doing as well as we could have...
...millenniums, the process of ozone production and destruction has been more or less in equilibrium. Then in 1928 a group of chemists at General Motors invented a nontoxic, inert gas (meaning that it does not easily react with other substances) that was first used as a coolant in refrigerators. By the 1960s, manufacturers were using similar compounds, generically called chlorofluorocarbons, as propellants in aerosol sprays. As industrial chemicals, they were ideal. "The propellants had to be inert," says Chemist Ralph Cicerone, of the National Center for Atmospheric Research. "You didn't want the spray in a can labeled 'blue paint...
...associate professor of English at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, knew Bishop personally. The interviews Schwartz used in his thesis were the first the poet had ever given about her work, he said. "She was very shy about her poetry, and I was nervous about how she would react to my idea," said Schwartz...
...know how they will react with the pressure off," McElreavy said. "We will just have to wait [until Yale...