Word: responded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After being strapped in the 6-ft.-wide Faith 7 for nearly a day and a half, he had to take over when the best equipment that the best of science could provide failed. He had to respond with incredible precision to directions from earth; he had to show a kind of skill and nerve and calm that no man has ever had to demonstrate. While people around the world listened with deep anxiety, Major Cooper seemed cooler than any man on earth. Finally, he piloted his craft into the atmosphere, and his communications blacked out. After four minutes...
...brief, their research indicates that certain personality traits which ordinarily would not cause a person to commit illegal acts may be made criminogenic by environmental situations. Not all individuals respond the same way to any given set of conditions, but certain conditions do tend to develop certain personality traits...
What is most wrong with the multilateral idea, said Rockefeller, is "the fact that it avoids the basic problem of Europe's own understandable desire to be able to respond with its own nuclear weapons in its own defense in the event of attack." With heavy sarcasm, he added: "Of course, weak and dependent satellites are more tractable than proud independent Allies. They will also be more unreliable in times of stress...
...Thresher was silent. Calmly at first, the Skylark tried to regain contact. Crewmen tried sonar, telephone and Morse code transmissions to raise Thresher. With growing fear, they began exploding small depth charges every ten minutes, hoping Commander Harvey would respond to those alarm signals. They kept up a drumfire of sonar and telephone messages-one every minute. But Thresher did not answer...
...teaching. In his view, both he and students profit when he can "induge" in extensive study. Not only "is it a relief to be on top of a subject, not always an easy task in some of the broader courses," he says, "but I have found that students respond best to the lectures which are based on research...