Word: reaction
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...didn't hear a single thing about his reaction to it until about five years later. He said, "Well, he got most of it right, except when he tried to be nice." He was right. I shouldn't have pulled my punches. You should never do that, not if you're writing nonfiction...
...engine purrs with a low growl, and I can't resist revving it. As the Merc passes, its driver slows to a pause, nods at the sinuous, sleek lines of the pearly dark blue R8, then smiles approvingly and says, "Simply lovely." His is a typical reaction...
...local newspaper reporter recently, the vice-presidential candidate was quick to mention his connections to the town, including his Scranton friends Larry, Charlie and Tommy. After he got the nomination, he said his mother told him, "Joey, everybody in Scranton will be so proud." It's exactly the reaction Barack Obama is hoping...
...Seoul and in Washington, the reaction was the same. Not: 'Oh no! What do we do now? The North has pulled out of the nuclear deal!' But rather: 'Here we go again...
...heroes' burials to 10 paratroopers killed during an ambush of Taliban fighters. France has 2,600 troops as part of the so-called International Security Assistance Force, a U.S-led contingent of 52,000 NATO soldiers, that continues to police Afghanistan in the war on terror. "Beyond the immediate human reaction to this loss of life, this attack is most instructive in telling us about the rapidly rising strength and capacity of the people we're up against," says Francois Heisbourg, special adviser to the Foundation for Strategic Studies in Paris. "The Taliban have been allowed to reconstitute...