Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sampling of reaction from local high school principals indicated a general approval of the recent report, "The American High School Today," by James B. Conant, President-emeritus...
...Dulles said today the United States and its allies were trying to find new proposals for solving the problem of Germany." Elsewhere in the same issue the Times, which had printed a front-page-dope story two days before predicting just such a shift in U.S. policy, reported world reaction to the press conference over interpretation, quickly threshed by Timesmen abroad. From London: SECRETARY'S VIEW DISTURBS BRITISH. From Bonn: BONN is SHOCKED BY DULLES' WORDS...
...greater subtlety and complexity, and no less intensity, than the clods out of which modern plays are frequently heaped up. Thomas' words sometimes cast a glow, a light never seen on land or sea, even on the murderers (though never on the murders); but it is Doctor Rock's reaction, in the scene where before a phantom audience he lectures on the dissection of the human conscience, that proves that melodrama can be used for purposes of poetry...
...English garden nearly 300 years ago and wondered why things move as they do, and why things fall. When a rocket engine shoots a jet of gas out of its tail cone, Newton's third law takes over: For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Acting in the opposite direction to that of the racing gases, a mighty force lifts the rocket off its launching pad. As long as the engine fires, the rocket climbs faster and faster, obeying Newton's second law: An unbalanced force acting on a body makes it accelerate...
University Hall reaction was delayed, but one top official, who asked that his name be disclosed, commented, "We knew all about this ploy months ago, but didn't want to say anything. Boys will be boys, you know...