Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...angriest reaction came from trigger-tempered Ross Siragusa of Admiral Radio, who got wind that the ad was to run and fired a volley of telegrams to newspapers warning them to check with the FCC before running it. Eleven of the 41 newspapers in Zenith's schedule canceled the ad. The TV-station-owning Detroit News ran it, but also published an answer. Gist of the News''s retort: "Anyone . . . who denies himself . . . the thrill of television because of 'frequency changes' could grow old and grey waiting for the change that may never come...
Glenn G. Munn of Manhattan's Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis seemed bullish. Said he: "Time is running out on this stock market [down] cycle." On the other hand, he was also bearish: "Business may be in a slow-motion rollover into an oldfashioned, spiraling, chain-reaction decline." However, investors should also remember that "we are in ... the Treasury-Keynesian-Keyserling cycle. That means Government intervention-cheating the silly down-cycle from its accustomed brutal innings...
Everything from a modern interpretive "reaction to examinations" to dance movements to poetry are in the offing. The Dance Group will also present studies in technique of several pieces from the Alice in Wonderland duchess-lobster quadrille and a Negro spiritual number...
...such fuels hit water, they decompose it violently by uniting with its oxygen, giving off heat and a large volume of hydrogen gas. The combustion chamber is shaped so as to make the expanding water-and-gas mixture shoot out the rear opening as a high-speed jet. The reaction from this drives the engine (and the torpedo) forward...
Besides common fear these qualities consist of a "common educational heritage a common reaction to law enforcement, and a common basis of political and economic systems...