Word: respondents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doomed. They assured Frenchmen everywhere that this was the case, and most Frenchmen believed them. General de Gaulle went to England to rally the French Empire to the cause of fighting on. A good many oldsters in charge of colonial administration, convinced that all was lost, refused to respond. Many younger leaders wanted to fight, but doubted Britain's and De Gaulle's will or ability to fight on. By the time they decided on resistance many had been replaced by Vichy...
...when the war broke out, Quezon was sick. U.S. observers were worried by his silence, his brooding on his yacht, his long rest-cure treatment at the health resort of Baguio in the hills. After his lifelong fight for Philippine independence, it seemed stranger still that he did not respond to the gigantic world struggle for democracy, with all that it meant to the independence of small nations...
Would Americans who respond sympathetically to such intellectual conclusions approve of their medical adviser if he diagnosed an incipient tuberculosis or the early start of a malignant growth and advised: "So long as you are able to hold on to your job, there is no need for you to worry. When you become totally incapacitated give me a ring and I'll see what I can do to alleviate your suffering in the last fatal stage of your illness...
OPACS, pleased with the success of Dr. Galbraith's fight talk, planned to try the same technique on other commodities-eventually, on some important ones. If they respond as well as pepper, OPACS thinks overall price legislation (for which plans are now before the President) will not be necessary for some time...
...people with whom he deals in the present--his students and assistants--any more than it has hindered him from comprehending deeply the human being in the historical past. Only a teacher with a sense of humor and a sympathy with his fellow beings could ever make his listeners respond to history so fully. Behind his quiet, precise voice is a mind and personality which has gained not only the admiration, but also the deep friendship of those students who have heard his lectures this year and others years...