Word: responded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...swords are, to Western eyes, paradoxical. At first, you cannot fail to respond to them as weapons, designed to cut and kill. But at the same time they are quite untactile. Bear down on the ha, the edge, and it will (to put it mildly) hurt you, being of surgical sharpness. Yet you hurt it. The skin of the steel can be ruined by the moisture and acids left by one fingerprint; breathe on it and it will begin to rust in 30 minutes. The blades conjure up tension between one's senses of sight and touch-threat...
What is it about this rather innocent contraption that can lead crowds to cheer its defeat or induce lightweight oarsman Bill Chapman to respond to its mere mention with a vehement "I hate fuckin' ergs...
...campaign style is to give fairly general speeches, then throw the meeting open to specific questions. Carter usually makes a genuine effort to respond adequately and will often ask his questioner if the answer was satisfactory. But he rarely delivers a formal, policy address from a text, and while he has issued a series of brief position papers, he has made little or no effort to lay out his proposed policies in full detail. One reason: he lacks the kind of large professional staff maintained by his opponents from Congress. Still, in his day-to-day campaigning, Carter...
...voice rising, Bailey said that if Patty were to respond to the prosecution, "she would name people still on the street capable of homicide who would retaliate against her [and her family]." Alluding to threats that had recently been made against Patty and her parents, Bailey hotly told Carter: "I do not think that you can in good conscience, as a human being-that you can require her to sit up here and invite someone to carry out those threats." Bailey then said he would ask the judge to suspend the trial while the defense appealed his ruling...
STUDENT SUBSCRIBERS to the New York Times and Boston Globe were hardly surprised to learn recently that the Harvard Delivery Service dropped virtually all attempts to respond to subscriber complaints after Christmas vacation. Admission of this reality by the director of the service only made official what those who had futilely complained to the service's "phone-mate" had already realized...