Word: reaction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...point after considerable national tolerance toward the radicals. Those who evolved the technique of confrontation into a frighteningly effective weapon are now themselves confronted-by angry government officials, the courts, an increasing number of resolute college administrators and even by exasperated fellow students. The crucial question is whether the reaction has come soon enough, and whether it will take the proper form. If it does not, higher education in the U.S. is in trouble, threatened by both the wilder dissenters and by the repressive forces of an enraged government and public...
...plant and equipment and new building permits. Reversing sharply in March, the three portend slower growth in inflation-provoking corporate spending on expansion. They reflect boardroom decisions that will soon show up as changes in factory output and personal income, which are measured among the so-called "coincident" indicators. Reaction is already evident in retail sales, which also turned down sharply in March. Eventually, the effects will ripple through the economy as rises or declines in the "lagging" indicators, among them bank interest rates, labor costs and prices...
Many of us, I think, are terribly afraid of that kind of reaction from outside the campus communities...
From a spectator point of view, the lacrosse contest was different because lacrosse is a team game, whereas fencing and tennis consist of many individual matches. To watch the exceptional team-work and then the reaction of the reaction of the group as a whole to the crucial goals was a stirring experience...
...revolutionary. The responding writers make a number of objections on historical grounds and try to discredit the sociology of Stanley Elkins, whose work Styron called "enormously important" and which influenced Styron called "enormously important" and which influenced Styron's portrait of plantation slaves. In part, Elkins compared black's reaction to the authoritarian system of slavery to Jews' reaction to German concentration camps...