Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...news will not be carried "except where some specific event has exerted a marked reaction on the American state of mind," he said yesterday, citing the sinking of the Athenia and the German-Russian Pact as examples of exceptions to the general rule...
Even faster than they get panicked, British get bored, and by last week they were heartily fed up with groping around in the dark waiting for gas and bombs which never materialized. And the Government began to realize that wolf-wolfing the populace every night was poor psychology. A reaction set in. In "safe" areas, 2,000 cinemas opened, reported exceptional business. Actors went on the road: 73-year-old Dame Marie Tempest in Dear Octopus, John Gielgud in The Importance of Being Earnest, Diana Wynyard in Design for Living. Christmas pantomime Producer Francis Laidler went ahead with plans...
...reaction," said Dr. Calingaert, "all but shakes the foundations of our general concepts of the behavior of atoms in molecules...
...year the seediest remittance man in South America was judged a secret agent; the hungriest British novelist lecturing to the U. S. was thought by many to be a Foreign Office spokesman. Britain's propaganda office was not organized until long after the invasion of Belgium, nevertheless reaction gave neutrals an enduring suspicion of Britons bearing news...
South America's reaction to the conflict was almost entirely economic, almost entirely bullish. Businessmen, confident that no South American nation would be actively involved, remembering the mints made in the last War, having experienced no real fighting except the Chaco War and revolts in Brazil, saw that their continent would be the world's tuck shop. South America would sell at hot prices all the raw materials which had lain fallow and unproductive in the past decade. War would wipe out with one black stroke all the hobbling economic nostrums of dictators-depreciated currencies, frozen gold stocks...