Word: responding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which Homer lampooned the princelings at whose courts he recited, while pretending to hymn the heroes of the past. In this view, Agamemnon, leader of the Achaeans, is the prize buffoon. And when Hector, the Trojan leader, offers to stake the whole war on a single combat, the Greeks respond at first with resounding silence. Then Menelaus, whose wife Helen set off the strife by running away with Paris, grudgingly accepts the challenge-but quickly lets himself be talked out of it. When at last Ajax is chosen by lot, he and Hector spar for a minute and then agree...
...Doren was in hiding, having added nothing to a midweek wire to Subcommittee Chairman Oren Harris that on the program he was "never assisted in any form." (Van Doren said that he had made the same statement to a New York county grand jury months ago.) His failure to respond to the subcommittee's invitation to testify had already caused NBC, which employs him at $50,000 a year as consultant and as a Today commentator, to suspend him. And many of the characters who had surrounded Van Doren during his 14-week climb toward his $129,000 winnings...
...Hypnosis may be an effective technique in controlling persistent hiccups. So say Internists Gordon Bendersky and Martin Badin in the A.M.A.'s Archives of Internal Medicine. They cite one patient who began hiccuping after hospital treatment for a coronary occlusion, failed to respond to a wide range of conventional treatments (e.g., drugs, sedation, nerve stimulation). After one session of deep hypnosis, the attacks stopped. Many doctors disregard hypnosis on the ground that it suppresses symptoms without attacking the ailment's cause (whether emotional or organic), but the authors argue otherwise. Their conclusion: Because psychological problems...
...Russians' failure to respond is not regarded as precluding a future agreement. It is thought that "waiting to see" the results of Premier Khrushchev's visit to the United States may have contributed to the delay...
...must have the feel of your boat. The boat can tell you a lot of things, but you have to respond to the feel. I say. go out with a friend and put on a blindfold or close your eyes. That's a good way to learn the feel...