Word: reacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stiff note protesting the U.S.'s "gross provocation," Russian MIG fighters had been sent up to intercept the wandering T-39. The MIGs, claimed the Russians, had signaled with conventional "follow-me" wigwags, and followed that with a warning burst of gunfire. When the T-39 "did not react," said the note, the fighters were "forced to undertake measures" to protect East German airspace...
...absurd beliefs . . . Christian science . . . occultism . . . yogi . . . Greek sandals . . . table-tipping." Two critics pass the ill-matched pair. "Ha, ha," they gibe, "still discussing The Golden Fruits?" Translated into Sarrautese, this sally means: "Poor creatures, incapable of grasping, dissecting anything delicate . . . trusting only in their instinct, which immediately makes them react to what is 'true,' 'beautiful,' 'alive' as they say, like puppies that lie on their backs and whimper at the mere sound of a caressing voice...
...their greatest political leader a man who loves the language and can use it. And what they deserved they, in this instance, happily obtained." Kennedy's election, says Shannon, represented an Irish coming of age in America. Never again will the Irish be able to feel, or react, like an oppressed minority...
...rays. Only neutrinos will reach the tank's supply of perchlorethy-lene, a cleaning fluid containing about one quarter of chlorine 37. Dr. Davis estimates that out of the countless trillions of solar neutrinos that will be passing through the tank, between four and eleven per day will react with chlorine 37 atoms...
...implication was that if President Kennedy had been shielded or thrown to safety on the floor of the car in the 5-sec. interval between the two shots, he might have survived. A Secret Serviceman, trained to react quickly in such emergencies, might have done just that had he been stationed close enough to Kennedy. One agent rode in the front seat of Kennedy's car in Dallas, but there was no way for him to scramble back to the President's aid in time. Kennedy himself had always objected to agents flanking him closely (particularly when campaigning...