Word: respondants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the carrot is the more important of the two: "incentive" is the watchword, and all classes of the community are busy arguing that if only they are given a little bit more in the way of incentive (at the expense of the rest of the community) they will respond with more activity. ... But it is probably more realistic (though it has that touch of brutal cynicism that is so much frowned upon these days) to hold that the stick is likely to be more effective than the carrot. It may be true that one reason why people will...
...explanation: "The Boston Catholic laity are in leading strings to the clergy, and are impotent. In an excess of goodness, docility, almost infantilism, they respond to every dictum of the clergy. . . . They have no leaders, no official voice, no public opinion as a group, no forum for frank discussion...
...Admiral Richardson, talking across the gadget-littered desk, did not respond to the President's ebullience. He was in tensely worried ; he had been brooding for months over the crowded anchorage at Pearl Harbor, the fleet's lack of manpower, ammunition, shore defenses, a proper supply train. Neither the Navy nor the nation, he had concluded, was ready...
Though it had all been blueprinted in general, Tory backbenchers squirmed, looked to the front benches for a word of protest, a challenge to debate. Winston Churchill's chair was vacant. So was Anthony Eden's. Oliver Lyttelton had to respond. He did, weakly, with a parliamentary point that was out of order. Laborites laughed and catcalled...
...victims did not respond very well to cold compresses, commonly used in cold-water immersion cases. More effective was hot water, which the investigators have recommended to U.S. lifeguard and rescue services...