Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What are we to do about it?" asked the New York Times, as it surveyed the world around it. "We and the things we stand for will survive when we live up to the ideals we profess . . . The U.S. reaction must be positive, helpful and conservative...
...beginnings of U.S. reaction in the week of challenge were just that...
...cynical surrenders of reprobate politicians in Paris. These watching men leaped in swiftly in Algiers to guide events their way, but if they could impel events they could not with certainty control them. France settled down to an uneasy testing time of men in action and in reaction. Men eager to exploit the situation were fearful that a misstep might bring to power those they opposed, or a continuing irresolution might bring on what no true Frenchman wanted, the trials of a civil...
They indicated that this natural reaction will take us back halfway to normalcy. But the economists emphasized that Government measures are needed if 1957 business levels are to be regained within the next few years...
...significance to Capp's 60 million readers; therefore he does not use it. Whenever he uses the Harvard name in Li'l Abner--and he has done so fairly often it is always in a disrespestful way, but "the more disrespestful treatment," Capp says, the more delighted the reaction at Harvard...