Word: reacts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the verdict came down last week, Lorena Bobbitt did not seem to know how to react. "Is that good?" she asked one of her attorneys. After seven hours of deliberation, a jury of five men and seven women had acquitted her by reason of temporary insanity for what the law describes as the malicious wounding of her husband John Wayne Bobbitt. In the more familiar language that even the most squeamish have learned to say out loud since she wielded her knife last June, she cut off his penis. "Fifty years ago, Lorena Bobbitt would have been convicted without...
...Harvard, conservatives are disparaged most often because, well, they're the most interesting people around. They tell us things we don't want to hear, and force us to react...
...TIME: How did they react? Sumner could not have been very happy...
Morrison found working at a weekly magazine to be a little frantic compared with the biweekly FORTUNE, but also terrifically stimulating. "You have to react to constantly shifting news, but you still have to provide plenty of analysis," she says. Fortunately, one thing was familiar: the names, if not the faces, of her temporary co-workers. Morrison's husband Donald was at TIME for years (he's now an assistant managing editor at ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY and, coincidentally, Ann's current stand-in at FORTUNE). Good things rarely last forever, though, and so next week she will be heading back, while...
...rare to have five compounds react together simultaneously. Usually when five react it starts with two," he said. "It's not surprising to me that it's more comfortable for some institutions to go about it this...