Word: responded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...churches in the West are cynically unwilling to give or to respond to gestures of friendship, they are false to their own conviction that one ought to love even his enemies. Furthermore, such reluctance would forfeit the chance of Western churches to help the Russian churches resist the more subtle but not less effective propaganda attack against religion...
...Department of the History of Art, and it should add one or more basic courses in addition to Fine Arts 13, "in order to fulfill the complex task of introducing several hundred undergraduates to the broad field of the history of art, and at the same time to respond to their varied interests...
Gandhi could turn from constructive service to civil disobedience overnight, depending on his acute awareness of the temper of the people, whether in South Africa or in India. His fasts and his spinning and his marches all were attuned to what he knew the Indians would respond to. Satyagraha, under Gandhi's quiet leadership, was hard to stop, for in the minds of Indians, he had effectively changed Truth into Action. When the leaders and supporters of the Montgomery boycott plan the rest of their current campaign, a few additional thoughts on Gandhi's Satyagraha--its strength, its limited goals...
...intervals along 1.9 miles of Ponce de Leon Avenue are rubber inserts in the pavement that respond to each vehicle passing over them. They report to a 2-by-3-ft. aluminum box packed with electronic equipment. The box is essentially an analogue computer whose electronic intelligence forms a detailed picture of traffic on the avenue. When the Atlanta Crackers' ball game ends, the computer knows it immediately from traffic flow, and tells secondary control boxes at the traffic lights to clear the way for homebound fans. The master control box allows for the side streets too, and does...
...supersensitive finish line is difficult to imagine, also, because it must not be affected by the waves caused by the swimmers. Yet it must respond to the lightest pressure of the hand...