Word: responded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cases are referred to the American Aid Society, an organization run by U.S. and French businessmen. In Japan, the Columbia Society of Yokohama lends Americans a helping hand with small loans and emergency cash. When visitors run afoul of local laws and regulations, embassy legal staffs are required to respond. But as an American resident in Tokyo puts it: "They don't break any track records going to the rescue...
Roszak and Dubos are both, in some sense, optimists. But Roszak posits a crisis that only a radical and desperate hope can respond to. More convincingly, Dubos argues that history has been an unending crisis-with a pretty fair record of self-restoration or at the least survival. Man's greatest complacency, he implies, may be to presume he can destroy the universe of which he is only one product. "Be realistic," says Roszak, quoting a counterculture slogan. "Plan for a miracle." The miracle, Dubos might undramatically demur, is that life in infinite, apparently inexhaustible variety (with or without...
...previous novels like Yellow Flowers in the Antipodean Room and, more recently, Intensive Care, the author examines conventional attitudes toward death with both satire and wistful poetry. Talbot's parents, for example, respond to mortality by rushing an elderly relative into a nursing home with a sigh of relief that Miss Frame compares with "the faint whirr made by the garbage disposal unit when it comes to rest after doing its work." Yet her central symbol for this evasive herdlike response to death is a six-month-old buffalo in the Central Park Zoo that is "already trained...
...Watergate bugging. The man who dismissed him, former Nixon Campaign Manager John Mitchell, left the campaign a few days later because, he said, his wife Martha wanted him out of politics. Liddy had worked in the White House with Hunt, a former CIA agent who has also refused to respond to FBI questions. Hunt left the White House last spring. Before they apparently moved into political surveillance, Liddy and Hunt were part of a White House team known as "the plumbers," because they were assigned to investigate the source of leaks to the press like that of the Pentagon papers...
...Lepus Producer A.C. Lyles. "When we got to Arizona, we found they'd already forgotten everything we taught them." The rabbits also had a tendency to drop out of stampedes to munch on the scenery, forcing their trainers to gorge them beforehand -thus making them too lethargic to respond to the clicks...