Word: responded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...resolutions cannot force a policy shift, but they can help the President to realize that if he does not respond, the Congressmen's constituents may overturn the war game itself...
...discussed Sandy's "shyness" with most people other than those she has known a long time. I pointed out that her main interests aside from acting were reading, her home, and her animals. In that context, I meant to convey that because of her shyness, she would naturally respond to animals easier than to most people. I could have, with honesty, also included her natural and loving response to children and theirs...
...mothers, a Boy Scout troop among urchins. The Brendens, both Lutherans, arrived in Saigon last year under the auspices of Viet Nam Christian Service, a relief agency jointly sponsored by Lutheran World Relief, Church World Service, and Mennonites. The couple symbolizes the largely unsung efforts by U.S. churches to respond-as they have done in all wars-to the human suffering that is the unwanted but inevitable result of the Viet Nam struggle...
Since they are a gentler people than the Vietnamese and have no colonial history to rebel against, the Thais are largely unresponsive to Communist canards about "imperialism." They do not readily respond to promises of new tractors, loans and a better life. The Reds are often forced to try such blackmail tactics as getting up a shopping list of a village's needs, getting the people to sign it, then a week later claiming that the list has fallen into government hands. The whole village, the Reds say, will go to prison unless it accepts Communist "protection." Sometimes...
...Lindsay "walk," follow-up teams are sent within a week to remedy complaints. The mayor has no illusions that the palliatives, such as garbage cleanups and street cleaning, will make a vast permanent difference, but he senses that they give residents hope and spirit. The slums, in turn, usually respond with electric excitement whenever he appears. Older men and women hang out of their windows, children clutch at his hand, and teen-agers-usually the troublemakers-tousle his hair, heckle him good-naturedly, challenge him to a ball game...