Word: reaction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issues touch as deep a nerve in the nation's psyche as questions surrounding capital punishment. Thus reaction across the country last week was swift and in some quarters downright horrified when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that crimes by some juveniles and mentally retarded people may be punishable by death. By a 5-to-4 vote, the high court ruled in a pair of decisions that the constitutional ban on "cruel and unusual punishments" does not forbid the execution of youths who commit crimes at 16 or 17 years of age, nor does it automatically prohibit death sentences...
Members of the self-help group Gamblers Anonymous, who see Rose as one of them, nod and say, aha, his reaction sounds like another part of the classic pattern: denial. There is an ancient gag among Gamblers Anonymous members: "How do you know when a compulsive gambler is lying? When you see his lips move...
...only have strengthened the public's cynical suspicion that smoke inevitably signals an inferno of secret scandal. Hart's dramatic downfall was an embarrassing spectacle, especially for all the journalists who missed the story. Pam Maples, a political reporter for The Rocky Mountain News in Denver, expressed a typical reaction: "This paper has tended to be very conservative about rumors. After the Gary Hart story broke, there was guilt here among some of the editors and reporters. You know, he was the hometown boy. The feeling was, Shouldn't we have been doing that story...
...thing is clear, though: the intensity, scope and expense of the Government's reaction to Bracy's March 1987 statement would have been far different if the stage had not been set by a series of interagency disputes about security in Moscow...
Washington's reaction: Any talks with Ortega at this time would be premature...