Word: reacted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This is a story of how those generations are responding. The responses vary, as you would expect. The five war zones represented here are quite different from one another, and the children in each place have their differences as well. Nor do those within a single war zone necessarily react in the same ways to the terrors around them. What all these children do have in common is a fierce will to survive?a will that sometimes takes the form of revenge, and at other times, of an abiding serenity. But no matter how they assert themselves, there...
...details of the story with Government officials were advised not to overreact. But as the days passed, the story was enhanced in tantalizing bits and pieces until what had started as rumor became a full-fledged scare. Soon the White House, FBI and Secret Service found themselves forced to react, partly in response to the publicity. Reagan thus was fanning the flames of red-hot speculation when he flatly declared: "We have the evidence...
Solidarity leaders often react vociferously to government shows of firmness, yet there was little evidence last week that the union's basic eagerness to avoid confrontation had changed. Still, the assault provoked genuine anger among Solidarity supporters. It also made it more difficult for Solidarity to support the proposal for a "front of national agreement" that had been put forward a month ago by the Premier and party chief, General Wojciech Jaruzelski. The plan, which had been endorsed in part by Walesa and the Roman Catholic Primate, Archbishop Jozef Glemp, would have established a permanent legal forum for negotiations...
...Solidarity member who left Poland last spring to teach at Harvard retained hope that the union could effectively counter the government thrust without bloodshed. "I can only hope that the people will react peacefully to this...but in a decisive way," Stanislaw Baranczak, associate professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, said...
...real problem is simply that Nichols seems confused about his own goals. He wants to examine the many major issues facing the church, and how it must react, but he seems reluctant to provide the sort of tough devil's advocacy that such an investigation demands. The result is a book of pulled punches. The book's title comes from Stalin's famous reply, when told of the pope's likely opposition to a Soviet move: "How many divisions has the pope?" With a bit of clever wordplay, Nichols seems intent on making it mean not only the pope...