Word: responded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suppose a man trained to "respond instantly to stimuli, such as a command" (to bow and yell "Airborne" to a shout of "Hit it") is already partially dead...
...very high treble--sounds above 8,000 cps--provides the timbre characteristics by which the instrument's particular qualities are distinguished. The range to which the average person's ears respond is about 25 to 15,000 cycles per second. The ability to detect ultra high tones above 15,000 cps is limited mostly to babies and dogs...
...snapped. "Jump again." Near by a captain walking behind a row of trainees suddenly barked: "Hit it!" The men bowed seemingly in unison and shouted: "Airborne!" But four who had been slow to react by a flicker were set to doing pushups. Explained the captain: "We teach them to respond instantly to stimuli, such as a command." Under pressure of this sort, morale is sky-high in the 82nd. Enlisted men call out "All the way, sir!" when they salute an officer, get the reply: "Airborne!" One 82nd sergeant trained men while encased in a crotch-to-neck cast that...
Politician's Right. Nixon's announcement brought contrasting reactions from his two most notable rivals for the Republican nomination in 1964. New York's as a presidential "candidate," he had said nothing about how he would respond to a draft. Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater argued that Nixon had really read himself out of the presidential race. Said Goldwater: "Everyone who runs for office over there in California has to carry a Bible around and swear he won't run for the presidency. I'm convinced that Dick meant what he said...
...girls of Cascadia respond more warmly to Levin's bearded charm. Teacher Avis Fliss entices him with "her well-stacked bosom and behind like a hard head of cabbage." So does a shapely coed. But love comes thunderously during a chance encounter in an enchanted wood with Pauline Gilley, the susceptible wife of his benefactor...