Word: reacting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once again Charles de Gaulle was making great issues serve French ends. Oddly enough, the other participants in the summit seemed to react with a sigh, not an outburst. Moscow was heard plaintively saying that, like Dwight Eisenhower, it still thought the sooner a summit the better...
Hole in the Middle. Sound waves can perform the trick. When they pass through the reaction layer, they jostle the gases, make them mix and react either faster or slower, depending on the level of sound...
...Pointing out a relatively simple, 2,300-volt pump, Rickover cracked: "Even a politician can understand this." A few minutes later, without batting an eye, the admiral announced: "We can detect your bomb explosions." Kozlov guffawed. Said Rickover: "I wanted to see how long it would take you to react...
...hint and ceased politicking). On behalf of this Front, the Communists were once again demanding seats in the Cabinet. "This represents a historic turning point in the evolution of our patriotic movement," cried Baghdad's Communist mouthpiece, Ittihad al Shaab -and then waited to see how Kassem would react to their patriotism...
...Asked to react to "second-class citizen" as a "stock phrase," the majority considered it--and rejected it--as a description of the commuter, the most typical comment being "nonsense" followed by one of more exclamation points. Others, however, saw a "grain of truth." "Many commuters suffer from an inferiority complex . . . and show it," wrote one, and another snapped out: "I gather that as a member of Dudley I belong to an underprivileged group of some sort." A third non-resident observed that "I haven't come up against scorn; what I do resent is the automatic pity...