Word: reacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...R.A.F. pilots, battle-bitten Free Frenchmen, Italian and German prisoners, Russian women, army doctors, machinists, a ballerina, Mohandas Gandhi, General Sir Archibald Wawell, Sir Stafford Cripps and Jawaharlal Nehru ( who described his career as "the popular and widely practiced profession of gaol-going"). Asked Eve Curie:" How do you react to the term Dominion Status? "Answered Nehru: " It makes me slightly seasick...
...upon all problems in their search for solutions. Although medical and chemical research has proven that the blood of Negroes does not in the least differ from that of whites, the Red Cross continues to set it apart from "regular" blood. Although men in the Army, as human beings, react similarly to given stimuli, the War Department insists upon segregating Negroes from whites...
Colonel Blimp. No matter how they react to outside critics, none can approach the British themselves at selfcriticism. No one has lampooned the British character so brilliantly as crotchety Cartoonist David Low. Last month Britons chuckled when Low wrote an article summing up the arguments of walrus-mustached Colonel Blimp, whom Low created. Said Blimp...
...bubbled through a test tube, histamine and vitamin C react with each other, releasing ammonia (the amine part of histamine) and eliminating the irritating chemical. As circulating blood contains dissolved oxygen, Dr. Holmes thought it likely that the same reaction goes on in the body, decided to see what huge quantities of vitamin C would do toward taking hay-fever sufferers' extra histamine out of circulation, in order to relieve wheezing and sneezing...
Fight. Strained, anxious, the Russians still held their morale high. A Soviet writer explained: "There is a point in all Russians beyond which they seem to become oblivious of pain and fatigue. Up to that point, they are stolid and slower to react than most Europeans. Beyond it, they perform feats of endurance far beyond the usual human measure." To survive, the Russians called for feats of endurance from their army and for feats of performance from the Russian workers...