Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seemed most likely that the answer lay in stress, or more precisely, the reaction to stress. Many of the Haitians were even poorer than their South Carolina counterparts, but if they literally did not know where their next meal was coming from, they refused to worry about it. The research team was unanimous that the Haitians slept more, worried less, lived at a slower, less stressful pace (although they were obliged by lack of transportation to take more exercise). Said Dr. Groom: "The life of the American Negro is inherently more competitive...
...status of cheerleaders and cheerleading at Harvard, the Undergraduate Athletic Council... felt the need of an institutional guarantee that graduates would annually be replaced. The Council, without any previous deliberation on the subject and without showing the common courtesy of consulting members of the existing squad as to their reaction to the change, adopted a program which this year adds four UAC members to the cheerleading group but at the same time insists that five of the present members not be allowed to finish cheering this season...
...elected to the Senate, he will be a relatively useless and noisy ornament. He might provide companionship for fellow-maverick Bill Langer of North Dakota, but it will be hard to construe his victory as any resurgence of American reaction. As the candidates go into their final windups, responsible pulse-takers still predict a Watkins win. Such is the course of sanity, but sanity tends to be so dull...
Emerson's statement was a reaction to an announcement by White that the "coup" was unsuccessful owing to a constitutional technicality...
...nose are four pairs of small jets pointing up, down, left and right (see diagram). When the pilot wants to depress the nose of his craft in near-airless space, he will shoot superheated steam (produced by catalyzed hydrogen peroxide) through the upward-pointing jets. The reaction will push the nose downward. Similar jets in the wingtips will keep the wings level or make the ship bank or roll...