Word: reacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just how the two undergrounds will react to each other and to the Russian occupation remains to be seen. But the Polish people have not forgotten an old tradition of resistance to foreign masters; their undergrounds have kept a stubborn nation alive for the day of reckoning...
...Hazlitt slashed them to pieces in fits of rage. Nice girls also displeased Hazlitt. When Charles Lamb introduced Hazlitt to a group of them, the essayist snarled that "they drove him mad." Well established already, says Authoress Maclean, was the "deep division in his nature ... a tendency to react from extreme refinement of feeling to extreme grossness of desire." Wrote Coleridge : "Hazlitt, to the feelings of anger and hatred, phosphorus - it is but to open the cork and it flames!" Wrote Hazlitt to his bride : "I never love you half so well as when I think of sitting down with...
...Czechs thought they knew. To survive is an obsession with them; it is also their greatest talent. One of the smaller of Europe's peoples, they never had notions of grandeur, always realized that their role is to react rather than to act: to adjust themselves to conditions not of their making-and to survive. Unlike their next-door Slav neighbors, the Poles, the Czechs never believed in having more than one superior enemy at a time, never dreamed of going down in a romantic blaze of glory. Their national history is one long, continued search for allies...
...Department, unable to prove a single case of Axis espionage in Eire, be content with having put themselves on record? One clue: around the State Department, keenly conscious of the big U.S. Irish vote, the worried word about Eire last week was: "How do you think the U.S. will react...
...board asked Chaplain Talbott how he would react to several situations commonly encountered by service padres. Examples: 1) On a ship returning to port after several months at sea, the captain hands the chaplain $500, tells him when they land to hire a place for a dance, get an orchestra, plenty of beer, see that the sailors have a good time. 2) On a ship returning to port after a long stretch of duty, the commanding officer tells the chaplain that when the men land some will want to see women; he orders the chaplain to give...