Word: reacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...requiring annual election of officers may react similarly to the disadvantage of industrial peace. The bill obviously aims at labor leaders who become so firmly entrenched politically that even the dissatisfaction of a majority of the workers cannot dislodge them. The problem of dealing with such leaders is indeed a great one. All honest laborites would welcome its solution...
...would be much slower to react militarily against Russian political gains. (Highly probable...
Fantasy Island. Next morning examiners handed out booklets describing "Fantasy Island," a nonexistent spot 400 miles north of Australia, inhabited jointly by British and Dutch. Each candidate had to face examiners and fellow candidates and answer how he would react to hypothetical administrative problems. No. 17's problem, as governor of Fantasy Island: Jewish D.P.s were being ostracized by their neighbors on the island; should he allow them to set up an all-Jewish community in an area already occupied by Italians? Nervously, No. 17 argued yes. The group voted him down ("It would lead to bloodshed"), but examiners...
...little at first with startling realism. The cabin vibrates convincingly. The monotonous beat of the guiding radio beam throbs in the pilot's headset. If the instructor chooses to start a fire in an engine, an alarm bell blasts, the pilot stops the engine, and the controls react violently. The crew must know instantly how to bring in a crippled plane, be able to find the runway with a blind-landing system. Even the squeak of tires is heard as the wheels hit the concrete on a landing. The crewmen come back from their simulated flight in a sweat...
...know how the Russians will react to such a proposal," Meyer admitted, "but I do know that a third world war would be suicidal to all concerned and that we must formally make known our good faith. If the Soviet Union should turn down an invitation, other nations must form a partial federation on the condition that the door of entrance is left open--not as a final solution but as a step toward...