Word: responded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this point, a frightful thing can happen. The shock wave spoils the airflow over the wing, reducing its lift. The plane's nose drops. Faster & faster it dives. Louder screams the shock wave. The pilot struggles helplessly with the controls, but the tail surfaces do not respond normally. They cannot pull the nose up. Down to earth shoots the plane, with the screech of a siren...
...Campbell III '48, newly-elected chairman of the undergraduate committee, declared yesterday that "the Administrative Board's response to our appeal for student consultation has been most encouraging. It now remains for the students to show that they are interested enough in the academic future of the College to respond to the Faculty's offer of cooperation...
...Jungle rot," "New Guinea crud" or "the creeping crud" are U.S. servicemen's names for any & every kind of tropical skin disease. Doctors often find the nicknames convenient, since diagnosis is not always easy and many varieties respond to standard treatment: cleaning, painting with silver nitrate and other chemicals, dressing with sal-sulfur ointment, avoidance of sweating, return to the temperate zone. The various kinds of jungle rot were described by Lieut. Commander Robert R. M. McLaughlin in the Naval Medical Bulletin last week. Some of them...
Today's high schools, says the Committee, have "the incomparably difficult task of meeting, in ways which they severally respect and will respond to, masses of students of every conceivable shade of intelligence, background, means, interest, and expectation...
...André Respond, anxious to hush up local gossip about Edda's high living, told the press: "Rumors that she escaped one night after her father's death and returned to the clinic intoxicated are absolutely untrue. Nevertheless, Madame Ciano occasionally does behave in a rather bizarre way. For instance, she likes to walk around barefoot like a gipsy and occasionally at night she will jump from her window into the garden for a stroll in the park and forest...