Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meagre French-censored despatches carried no mention of the reaction produced upon the Druses by these terms. The Druses have long feared and hated the French, and were especially bitter against M. de Jouvenel's predecessor, the ruthless General Sarrail...
...some ten days a filibuster by the opponents of the Court had prolonged debate before cloture was imposed (TIME, Feb. 1). Immediately thereafter the opposition realized it was beaten. Their first reaction was anger, and some delaying tactics began to be employed but as calmer judgment got the upper hand these ceased. Under the cloture rule each Senator might speak one hour, so that there might have been 96 hours of debate. Calculating roll calls, allowing six hours to the Senate's day, adding Sundays, action might have been postponed three weeks. Instead it was concluded in about 17 hours?...
...Reaction. Mr. George upon hearing of Sir Alfred's resignation publicly branded him by an indirect reference to the biblical Judas, and directly charged that he had abandoned the Liberals because he saw "poor prospects for an ambitious man" in sticking to them, now that the party has lost its War preeminence...
...horsewomen, used as they are to coursing astride, noted with secret mockery British news of last week that "a reaction had started in favor of the sidesaddle and the graceful riding habit of a generation ago, as against the man's saddle and the riding breeches of today." The objections to the man's saddle, besides the supposedly esthetic ones, were based on the quasi-medical grounds that the muscles of a woman's thighs were less strong than the corresponding ones of a man and that therefore a woman was less secure astride a horse-would...
...women received this intelligence, Klieg lights flared up, concealed cinema cameras whirred and clicked. Judge Brennan, assisted by psychologists, studied the resulting films. Calling the women back, Judge Brennan awarded custody of the child to Foster-Mother Goosen because the film showed "a much more biological emotional reaction on her part" (tears, sobs, quivering lips). Julie Goosen Pryzbla had stood as if unmoved, unconcerned where her daughter went...