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Word: reacts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...designed. It can look around with TV eyes, scan the close and forbidding horizon, feel the ground for moonquakes, perhaps examine pinches of moon dust for chemical content. It can do almost anything that its designers want it to do-except the most important thing of all: react intelligently to unexpected situations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Cruise of the Vostok | 4/21/1961 | See Source »

...expect me to react? It's beautiful!" an eminent Russian physicist visiting Harvard declared yesterday about the epoch-making flight into space of jet Air Force Major Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Visiting Russian Physicist Applauds Astronaut's Feat | 4/13/1961 | See Source »

...Grow Old? Every girl is tight-corseted with the propaganda that she must have a slim, svelte figure, no matter what her natural body build or bone structure. She may react to this either by trimming down mercilessly and suffering near starvation; or she may surrender to the neurotic pleasures of overeating?all the time rationalizing that the trouble is in her glands (which it almost never is). Another deliberate anxiety builder is the slogan, "Why grow old?" It introduces a prescription containing a teaspoonful of wisdom, such as the values of exercise and a balanced diet, diluted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Anatomy of Angst | 3/31/1961 | See Source »

...operation and Development to meet American demands for more multilateral aid. The U.S. plans to ask Japan and Western European nations to contribute an annual one per cent of their gross national products to overseas assistance. The OECD, which will employ the world's best planning minds, will react very rudely to the prospect of handling America's funds through the old and clumsy beast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Arcadia | 3/23/1961 | See Source »

...surfaces, and Hofmann wanted to record it. In his view, there is no such thing as emptiness: what appears to be emptiness is merely a space filled with force that has its own volume and form. Nor is there such a thing as motionlessness, for everything that exists must react to something else. A color automatically dilutes or enhances a neighboring color. Objects gouge out forms in space, and as one form recedes, another comes forward. The constant process of "push answering pull and pull answering push" is what Painter Hofmann tries to capture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Push Answers Pull | 3/17/1961 | See Source »

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