Word: reaction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many students are wondering whether Harvard can be truly a "free market for ideas" while so many of the ideas in vogue on campus are the by-products of government and private grants for research and analysis. It is difficult to say whether this attitude is a bitter reaction to the war or symbolic of a far deeper malaise and concern over the position of a University in modern American society...
Reagan's explosive reaction magnified what might have been a relatively minor incident. By contrast with scandal involving White House Aide Walter Jenkins in 1964, there was no arrest in the present instance-nor for that matter were there any of the national-security implications raised by the Jenkins affair, since a Governor's office is unlikely to have any national secrets worth worrying about. The upshot was to cast doubt both on Reagan's credibility and his tactical skill in dealing with the difficult situations that inevitably confront a major league politician...
Bleeding White Sap. Meanwhile, the U.S. 1st Division's reaction force was moving in reinforcements. The first to arrive were two helilifted batteries of 105-mm. howitzers and two rifle companies, the vanguard of two battalions. A third battalion later followed and began sweeping the rubber groves east of Loc Ninh. It proved an eerie enterprise. Moving down the corridors between the evenly spaced, parallel rows of trees, the troops were frequently brought up short by jungle birds whose screeches mimicked the whine of bullets. The almost purple earth underfoot teemed with a fierce breed of red ant whose...
...Higbee's have taken the doll off display, although so many customers have come in asking for it that both stores have had to reorder. With various pediatricians and child psychologists coming to the defense of Little Brother as a perfectly natural play doll "unless adult reaction makes it unnatural play," Creative Playthings is now seriously considering giving Little Brother a "Little Sister." And she will come equipped with everything that is a perfectly natural part of any four-month-old little sirl...
...realize that truculent public assertion of principles could only damage their own cause. Presumably these diverse pressures focussed on the administrative boards. The latter had the task of finding a resolution that the faculty would ratify--if possible by an overwhelming vote--and that would not provoke an uncontrollable reaction from the students...