Word: reaction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week's announcement sent cigarette stocks jumping, though immediate medical reaction was wary. Columbia will set up a special corporation to handle licensing arrangements (none has yet been made), and the possibilities are potent indeed. If all U.S. tobacco companies used the filter at a fee of a penny a pack, Columbia would get $280 million a year. Whatever the revenue turns out to be, most of it, at Strickman's request, will go into medical education and cancer research...
...staff-have been known to disappear into the fogs of the Vineyard for long stretches of time. Some of them even claim that the fog obscures not only land and sea but also the sound of the White House telephone." Added L.B.J.: "Secretary Katzenbach, I am carefully observing your reaction...
...contention that the fall of the junta might lead to civil war is partially valid--it might. But to strengthen the present dictatorship with military aid in the name of stability would be morally unjustified and would also lead to a more bitter reaction from the people. The political polarization would be far greater than in 1965, when a large majority of the electorate bitterly opposed the King after he had dismissed Prime Minister George Papandreou...
Shure is a pianist who likes his music meaty. At this Dudley House recital he cose to assault two of the most awesome pinnacles of the piano literature, the Schubert Sonata in Bb, Op. posthumous, and the Variations on a Theme of Diabelli by Beethoven. Reaction was mixed and tended to the extremes, but there was general admiration for the sheer endurance feat of getting through all those notes...
...first amused by the reaction to the buttons. The statement that they were merely a joke was given all the credence given to Nasser's generals. The Summer News adopted the phrase to embody all the ills of the school; once an editorial even imputed that the Administration, through its parietal rules, was in sympathy with what the Summer News had made of the phrase. Sales of the buttons rose, but the buttons themselves disappeared; if they were ever worn by the people who bought them in droves, they were worn only in bed. It became almost fashionable to have...