Word: reacted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...creator of Candid Camera; in Pebble Beach, Calif. Funt started the hit show on the radio after experimenting with concealed microphones in the Army during World War II. Candid Camera aired on TV, on and off, from 1948 to 1990. Among the oddities Funt delighted in watching puzzled humans react to: trick coffee cups, talking mailboxes and bowling balls without finger holes...
There is good reason for New Yorkers to react so strongly to Hillary Rodham Clinton's still unofficial Senate run. Being a heavily Democratic city, the problem isn't necessarily with her politics, but with her home state. Clinton is a skilled lawyer and certainly a talented politician who could probably adequately represent New York, but she cannot have passion for things New York. Why else would her first major political move be to proclaim her love for the New York Yankees...
There is good reason for New Yorkers to react so strongly to Hillary Rodham Clinton's still unofficial Senate run. Being a heavily Democratic city, the problem isn't necessarily with her politics, but with her home state. Clinton is a skilled lawyer and certainly a talented politician who could probably adequately represent New York, but she cannot have passion for things New York. Why else would her first major political move be to proclaim her love for the New York Yankees...
...immune system, you run the risk of triggering an inflammatory reaction, marked by fever, swelling and tissue destruction. In fact, many researchers believe the real destructive power of Alzheimer's comes not from the plaques but from the immune system's overreaction to them. The vaccine might also cross-react with other proteins, triggering an autoimmune reaction in which the body attacked its own brain cells...
...with the government and the cops and the tourists--have never devised a profitable means of detecting or extracting opals. It's handwork. You just stake a claim and start digging. Sounds simple, but the trouble is that none of the conventional geological spotting techniques apply. Opals don't react chemically with the stone matrix around them, and they don't leave the "traces" that gold or diamonds do. So it is a matter of digging and digging and digging. One spot is as good as another; the chances are always essentially the same. You can drill or pick into...