Word: reacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...joke "slips in on us by surprise before our anxiety and guilt can react." Our fears are allayed, our desires released, and we become elated and powerful, Bentley said. "Humor is an adult device for becoming a child...
...volunteer who talks with people like this finds it hard to know how to react. As Pitzele has said, "it is difficult to decide whether to contradict the patient, suggest that he means something else, or pretend to believe the statements and continue the conversation on that basis. As most volunteers are considerably younger than the average patients, they are reluctant flatly to contradict the patients' statements--a discourtesy in any case--although it seems impossible to agree. I think that an all too frequent reaction is to try turning preposterous statement into jokes and to leave it at that...
Acting Like Russians. By now, the President had no illusions that the Russians would stop acting like Russians. More to the point, he had begun to lay out guidelines for a foreign policy that would not have to just react to the Russians. He sent three personal representatives fact-finding through Latin America. He sent Roving Ambassador Averell Harriman to Western Europe. Behind the scenes at the U.N., Adlai Stevenson moved to achieve greater rapport with responsible neutralists in the Afro-Asian bloc, by backing their resolutions on agenda issues instead of floating his own. The State Department talked...
...wires, it was put on the shelf for a while, but eventually Bell Lab scientists patiently learned how to make a tube out of pure niobium, fill it with a mixture of powdered niobium and tin, draw it down to a wire, then heat it to make the powder react chemically, forming a thin core...
...example, how could, should, or would the U.S. react to a Soviet ultimatum that tomorrow it would begin to take over Western Europe, one nation per month. In the hypothetical ultimatum, the Soviets decide to help the President make up his mind by picturing the consequences of either limited retaliation or all all-out strike. The first, according to the Soviet note, would bring devastation to each country where it was applied, and hence would likely be rejected by the countries themselves; the second would elicit all-out retailiation by Russia's ICBM and "SAC" forces against vulnerable...