Word: reacted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...policies often change, sometimes radically," Dayan once told an Israeli interviewer. "But so do circumstances. I like to think of myself as one of those people who adapt themselves to changing circumstances, who react to the changes, and who sometimes help to create them...
Sociologists should not be surprised that college lovers frequently knock each other around [Sept. 21]. A generation that feels free to cohabit at first tumescence, must feel equally free to react physically when angered...
...Guardian Angels have yet to prove themselves a long-term threat to proper law enforcement. Their surfacing has focused attention on our failure to protect city residents. We must react to that failure by spending more money to pay more policemen, even if that means raising taxes and scrimping elsewhere. But we should not endorse the growth of an unregulated, privately run group of trained strong-arms. The Angels' leadership now seems a bit mysterious--some day we could conceivably find it dangerous. Their rhetoric is bold; it could become threatening. Before t-shirts become brown shirts and someone starts...
...OCTOBER 5, the first Monday in October, Sandra Day O'Connor will formally become the first female justice of the United States Supreme Court. Perhaps, on this historic occasion, you find yourself wondering how the other eight brethren will react to their new sister, and this curiosity could even inspire you to see The First Monday in October, a movie ostensibly based on this very question. Before you do, consider the following evidence...
...Irish writing) obsolete. When I was first teaching at Harvard, Catholic students could understand what much of Irish literature was about in its reaction to an old and authoritarian church. Now that church is gone, and it is hard even for Catholic students to figure out why writers reacted so strongly against the overwhelming power of the church." Reactions against the church, and against England before the revolution and the new Republican government afterwards spurred most of the great Irish artists, Kelleher says. "Now, if they react, it's to a government, which, though it may be trying...