Word: reacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hallicrafters Co. of Chicago has its REACT (Radio Emergency Associated Citizens Team), under which some 50,000 citizen operators have been organized into 1,600 teams, each of which is required to maintain sufficient membership to guard citizens-band Channel 9 (a nationwide emergency channel) 24 hours a day, seven days a week. In Detroit, the Automobile Manufacturers Association operates the headquarters of HELP, whose several thousand members man a network of two-way radios designed primarily to help stranded motor vehicle drivers...
Frightened and resentful after a summer of hoodlumism and hatred, the nation's white majority might react by turning away from the Negro and deferring-or discarding-the dream of genuine equality. Should that be the outcome, America's cities would truly be beleaguered...
...discipline is not so disatrous. But during Man and Man, when there are always several actors together, the weaknesses of the production emerge. Each tries to improvise his or her own character, gaily trooping along while haphazzardly bumping into others. A tape recorder blares out occasionally. While some may react to it, half the others may be too distracted by their own self-in-venting to pay attention...
While touring Harlech Castle in Wales, U.S. Physiologist Sanford Siegel found a wallside spot that had been often used as an open-air urinal. Not everyone would react the same way, but it made Siegel think of his job-studying what organisms survive in hostile environments. After scooping up some well-urinated and therefore ammonia-rich earth, he conscientiously lugged it back to his lab at the Union Carbide Research Institute in Tarrytown, N.Y. What he stumbled on, writes Siegel in Science, was a microorganism that may be the living descendant of a recently discovered microfossil that is 2 billion...
...turn salicylic acid into acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin), a compound related to acetic acid is used. If the raw aspirin is then cleared of impurities by washing with water, any remaining water will react to create a minute quantity of acetic acid-vinegar. This accounts for the vinegary odor and some of the irritating effect of much fresh aspirin and of most old aspirin. So Bayer uses a more costly, water-free process...