Word: reacted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...campus. Rather than force a face-off, which could have led to arrests, the University allowed the buildings to remain standing through Commencement, giving them police protection and lighting and allowing the shanties to remain up even during Commencement. Pusey says he doesn't know how he would react to such a situation...
...editorial: "It is almost as though the Twentieth Century itself has come to a sudden, violent, and premature end." He was a genius of self-proclamation. He made himself a representative hero. The adjectives he used did not so much describe as evaluate and tell the reader how to react: things were fine and good and true or lovely or wonderful, or else bad, in varying degrees. As the scholar Harry Levin has suggested, Hemingway sent postcards back home: "Having a wonderful time, wish you were here." He worked hard at his writing, and yet the interval between Fossalta...
...would the bride react when she reached the altar and saw the real thing, in the form of the Chicago Bears and the Dallas Cowboys, waiting for her in Wembley Stadium? Well, the honeymoon may not be over, but when the much ballyhooed American Bowl came to an end last week in London, it was clear that American football has yet to find domestic bliss in Britain. "You can't beat the spectacle," said one fan as he shuffled toward the exits, "but don't you think that 3 1/2 hours is rather much for a onehour game...
...older person was chosen for this study because she normally followed a regular sleeping-waking schedule, and because her system was most susceptible to light during the evening hours, unlike those of younger people, who react most strongly in the middle of the night, said Czeisler, who co-authored the study appearing today in the journal Science...
...meteor were to burst in the atmosphere tomorrow, Shoemaker says, "the Soviets and the U.S. would know what it was" and not react militarily. Their detectors could distinguish between a nuclear explosion, which generates million-degree temperatures, X rays and gamma rays, and an exploding meteor, which would produce considerably lower temperatures and no deadly radiation. But smaller nations, unaware of the nature of the blast, might react violently. Says Shoemaker: "Suppose it happens over Syria or Pakistan?" He proposes that the U.S. immediately try to determine whether the explosion was of cosmic origin and notify the affected nation...