Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been few and inconclusive; they are not industry-wide complaints--such as the railroads have against firemen in deisel engines--but specific instances that can be settled by arbitration. As for the general management desire to regain more control over work rules, most unionists feel that this is a reaction to the days of finks and company unions. Considering the progress made under present regulations, the company demand on work rules seems designed more to impede union activities than to redress grievances...
...height of the silly season, H.R.H. the Grand Duchess Gloriana XII of the Duchy of Grand Fenwick graciously declares that a state of war exists between Grand Fenwick and the United States of America. When the declaration is delivered to the U.S. Department of State, the only reaction it gets is a tired snicker from a bored bureaucrat: "Those guys in the pressroom. All the time making jokes." After all, Grand Fenwick is the smallest independent country in the world, a few square miles left over from the Middle
...airplane was a brand-new model of the four-jet Boeing 707, the first 707 destined for Braniff International Airways. Its special trick, as Boeing Test Pilot Russel H. Baum, 32, was trying to demonstrate to veteran Braniff Pilot Jack Berke, 49, was its eccentric reaction to an excessive sidewise skid, or yaw. Skid her too far one way or the other, he explained, and she will flip over.*At 12,000 feet over Seattle's suburbs, Pilot Berke, flying slowly with flaps down 40 degrees, tried to get the feel of impending trouble by kicking right rudder...
...This reaction surprised MacLeish himself, but his success has pointed out that such public talks in connection with a popular course are a good idea...
Peters calls Penn, with its conformists and non-conformists, fraternity members and dormitory inhabitants, and foreign and domestic students, "the most complex of the Ivy schools." But certain aspects of the administration's wide-eyed reaction to the off-the-beaten-path undergraduates suggests Penn is not so catholic as it might seem. Dean Pitt, arguing the case for diversity, used for an example, "Rick Cuthbert, our hurdles record-holder. He's a fraternity member, but he lives in a dorm because he wants to meet all sorts of interesting people. He has just met a Chinese...