Word: reacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rock Creek Park, the police cavalry, worried lest its horses should react violently to the roar of the parade and crowds, spent hours conditioning the mounts by feeding them heavy doses of Spike Jones recordings over loudspeakers. As a result, by Inauguration Day the horses were immune to noise, but the cops were nervous wrecks. Parade officials put on a small-scale dry run down Pennsylvania Avenue, pronounced everything satisfactory. They arranged for a helicopter to hover over the parade and radio traffic information to an Army-run command post. There, in a van off Pennsylvania Avenue, a control center...
...Gurion's blast has touched off an embarrassed dispute among U.S. Jewish leaders about their relationship to Israel. First to react was Philadelphia-born Rabbi Israel Goldstein, 64, former president of the American Jewish Congress. Stung by Ben-Gurion's reproaches, Goldstein stayed on after last fortnight's congress, the first top-ranking U.S. Jew to settle in Israel. But in the U.S., liberal and conservative rabbis alike condemned Ben-Gurion's theology as "erroneous." The American Jewish Committee declared itself "grieved and shocked" by the suggestion that Jews have an obligation to emigrate to Israel...
...seem to be basing our policy on some effuse concept of national dignity," Einaudi criticized. If Castro has been seeking the breaking of diplomatic relations, he commented, "I see no reason to react with a policy that does just what he wanted us to do in the first place...
...police that began when he hailed a prowl car under the impression that it was a taxi. In Birdland, a Manhattan jazz emporium, two weeks ago there was another brush with the law after an argument over a $7.60 check. "I never know how he's going to react," says Actor Anthony Franciosa, a friend. "Sometimes he tries to provoke me into an argument. Other times he's incredibly gentle. Or, sometimes, when I say to him, 'Norman, how are you?' he'll say, 'Cut the crap; you don't really mean that...
...most valuable experiences I had in college. It has contributed a great deal to many of my activities since. . . In the four years with the Crew, I learned: first, to get along with all kinds of guys; second, to plan in a reasonably orderly fashion; and third, to react with some sense, I trust, as emergencies upset my plans or the unexpected occurred...