Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sure acts funny at times. Just where do you draw that line between being colorful and being punchy?" But the Rocket, bearing down on opposing defensemen, is still one of hockey's great sights. Says the Canadiens' Executive Frank Selke Jr.: "Richard sets off a chain reaction whenever he gets the puck, even if it's just a routine pass. It's strange and wonderful, the way that he communicates with the crowd." Explains the Rocket simply: "I hate to lose...
...they can expect. Nevertheless, some experts expect a pause or short drop for the Bull to catch his breath. The pessimists fear a major shakeout. They could be right only if the nation's reading on its new economy is wrong. And in 1958 the economy's reaction to recession earned it a well-deserved vote of confidence...
...intense reaction comes partly from the different perspective on events as seen by Latin Americans. What to a U.S. citizen might seem a quixotic, comic, futile or irrelevant revolution can be brave, idealistic, tragic or admirable to its courageous participants. The army that is a means of national defense in the U.S. and Europe can be policeman and intermittent government in much of Latin America. To the U.S. reporter, born to a heritage of liberty and democracy, the Latin American, in his political fight for liberty, democracy and economic sufficiency, can seem mercurial, sometimes misguided. To the Latin American, with...
...when Foreign Offices employ batteries of experts, trade specialists, speechwriters and paper sorters who glory in their settled ways, nations rarely act any more on carefree impulse. Thus, international surprise was the first reaction to last week's merger of Ghana (formerly a British colony on the Gold Coast) with Guinea, which until two months ago was a French colony. The second reaction last week in London and Paris was shock...
Permitting Bethlehem and Youngstown to merge as a challenge to U.S. Steel, Weinfeld ruled, "offers an incipient threat of setting into motion a chain reaction of further mergers by the other but less powerful companies in the steel industry." Other companies could then ask to merge as a challenge to the "Big Two," thus bringing even greater concentration to "an industry already highly concentrated" and "heading in the direction of triopoly...