Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quincy House opened this fall, and people began eating in the new dining hall. Half of them faced the graffito, and half did not. There has been no record made of the diner's reaction, but recently several alumni without a sense of humor have expressed profound concern lest the digestive processes of Quincy pioneers be disturbed by the rudely scratched inscription on the wall...
...none, but it lacks so many of the factors usually found in blood that the patient loses some substances that are essential to life. Cellophane tubes of the type used in the artificial kidney will stop big protein molecules, so there should be no danger of a fatal antibody reaction. But they allow the blood's complex chemicals to pass freely if they are fully dissolved. So the protein-free part of the woman's poisoned plasma passed through both tube walls and into the sheep...
...following day, Mather spoke directly against the oath. His address, entitled "The Twilight of Democracy," drew immediate reaction both in the Boston press and from President Conant. "Teaching in an institution like Harvard must not become a state function; if it does, education is doomed to stagnation and the twilight of democracy will deepen into blackest night," Mather stated...
MacDonald charged that the customer's reaction was built into mass art. "Liberace visually underlines appropriate sentiments as he plays, so that even the most musically illiterate can tell what the music means...
...midweek, motorists had slowed to average speeds of 50-60 m.p.h., while many trucks that had flocked to M-1 returned to safer, slower routes. Then, one fog-shrouded morning on the motorway's northern reaches, a chain reaction took place. A disabled truck pulled to the side of the road, and a car stopped behind it; a police "breakdown van" pulled in to help. A truck piled into the breakdown van and the truck driver was killed. Another truck piled into the wreckage and its driver too was killed...