Word: reacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...magnets on its tines. When the tines vibrate, the magnets poke into tiny coils, generating a very small pulse of electric current that goes to a transistor and triggers it so as to permit a somewhat larger current to flow through the coils from a battery. The energized coils react with the magnets and keep the fork vibrating at a steady 360 cycles per second, giving a musical note a little higher than F above middle C. Each vibration pushes a jewel-tipped spring against a pinhead-sized wheel whose rim has 300 microscopic ratchet teeth. The turning of this...
...case "must speak guardedly of death as if it is years away; he must administer the Sacrament with no indication that this is probably the last time for confession, absolution, and real peace with God; he must see the mind that fades from narcotics is unable to perceive or react to any assurance about a fuller life." The only answer to the problem,Pasta Brooks feels, is in long-range preparation of Christians for their time of death. We must plant the seeds of understanding of death . . . so that our people will see it for what it is and will...
...more dramatic gesture to reduce surplus, both candidates have proposed to dump it on needy nations. Though undoubtedly benevolent, this idea is not so simple as it appears. Were the United States to distribute free wheat abroad, the international market would react like a man with dropsy...
...well with the same low-work system that succeeded in school, a system peculiarly adapted to Exeter's unique teaching and testing system. When Harvard gives them C's instead of B's, and they are not taken as a superior species despite their conspicuous sophistication, they tend to react by doubting the worth of Harvard's system, pointing out its weaknesses and defects, and thus refuting its rejection of their performance. Substituting independent intellectual activity and creativity, both subjectively defined, they become mere academic hangers-on, and dissatisfaction frequently terminates in departure...
...policies is a second and more important consideration. The Soviet Union--both its leaders and its people--must not, as experts caution, be viewed simply as a monolithic conspirator on the world stage. The inhabitants have fears and beliefs, both real and forged, but sufficient to cause them to react to every move on our part quite as we react to every move on theirs. A shelter program of the size required to make it effective would provoke the Russians not unreasonably to a defensive anger, give them (and uncommitted nations) greater reason to suspect our intentions, compel them...