Word: responding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Indians who believe in achieving their ends without resorting to violence put a great deal of faith in satyagraha, or reliance on soul force. Sometimes this takes the form of marching demonstrators who may provoke attack but won't respond to it. As a method of persuading Portugal to give up Goa, the Rhode Island-sized colony on India's west coast, satyagraha was a failure last year. So was diplomacy...
...which they can live happily in tranquillity, in confidence that they can raise their children in a world of which they will be proud. This common desire for peace is ... a terrific force in this world ... to which I believe all political leaders in the world are beginning to respond. They must recognize...
...opinion was conciliatory, we would reply that the South is no more of a mind to conciliate on Wednesday than it was on Tuesday. When the court proposes that its social revolution be imposed upon the South "as soon as practicable," there are those of us who would respond that "as soon as practicable" means never...
...bump. The real space traveler can count on no such happy ending. Space scientists believe that he will have to learn to live with a feeling of helpless falling while he flies through the stage of zero gravity. His nightmare will also include arms and legs that do not respond normally, and a sickening mental confusion about which...
...recent graduate of Harvard, finding himself in the student lounge of the Yale Law School one day last week, approached a student who was busy writing and attempted to start a conversation. At first the Yalie didn't respond, but when the Harvard man persisted, he looked up, and said: "Excuse me, buddy, but I can't talk to you. I'm taking an examination." Where upon the Harvard man crossed the lounge to a couple of students dipping coffee, only to find they too were in the middle of an exam, and were taking a brief break...