Word: reacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...does it mean that they are particularly vulnerable to meaningless vehemence and invective. . . . The Latin American cannot be expected to react exactly as we do because he lacks 1) firsthand experience of the sustained and healthy functioning of democracy, 2) the fundamental mistrust of Hitler's word, fed in North Americans by the feeling of intimacy with the tragedies of Czecho-Slovakia, Poland, etc., given us by our press, our great magazines, our radio, which after all have no true counterpart even in the wealthiest metropolitan centres [in South America], and 3) sentiment or love of any kind...
...Balkans. In November 1939 and January 1940 Germany used threats of invasion against the Low Countries to find out how those countries would react to actual invasion. For the same purpose Germany kept the Balkans in a state of jitters last week. By displaying her Army across the Danube, by spreading rumors and feeding correspondents scare stories, the Germans have already learned that there is no fight in Bulgaria. Last week they turned the heat on Yugoslavia. Rumors spread that Germany had demanded the use of Yugoslav railways for the transport of equipment to Albania, that large German forces were...
...Britain is to invade Eire through Ulster," blared the German radio incessantly, adding: "In such event, Berlin is determined to react in the same manner as in the case of Norway and Belgium." Britain, with approximately 300,000 troops massed in Ulster, was poised to march into Eire, but only after the first Irish shot had been fired at a German...
...train for Berlin this week. It was the first time that schoolmasterish Comrade Molotov had ever left his own country, and only the most pressing business could have induced him to go to Berlin. The business was pressing. For weeks Adolf Hitler has wanted to know how Russia would react to a concerted Axis drive to the East. For weeks Joseph Stalin has stalled...
...After all this was over, didn't you burn with righteous indignation? Didn't every fibre of your being vibrate with rage? How did you react to the horror, the heinousness, the chicanery and the utter fraud that was done, Mr. Stoebling...