Word: responding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...generation of progress," he said, "is forming up on the horizon." As usual, Romney laced his talk with moral homilies, and even his discussion of public responsibility carried a churchly ring. He told an Elks Club meeting in Idaho Falls that "the people of this country would respond in overwhelming numbers if their leaders asked them to give a tithe of time in constructive, voluntary effort"-four hours out of a 40-hour work week...
...there is, after all, a slim chance that Hanoi will respond affrmatively to one of Goldberg's conciliatory statements before Rusk can once again dash cold water on peace prospects. --JOHN A. HERFORT
...laws of economics predict that if wages for military service are raised, then enlistments will increase as well. Few people are so poor that they have no alternative but to respond to the offer of higher wages. Those who enlist are simply deciding that, all things considered, it is in their own best interest to join the army. This is hardly coercion...
...Mars were to spot a Martian running by, for example, its TV picture-traveling at the speed of light (186,000 miles per sec.)-would take about three minutes to reach the headset of its controller when Mars is closest to earth. Even if the controller were to respond immediately by reaching out to grab the Martian, another three minutes would elapse before his telemetered signals caused the telefactor to make its grab. By that time the quarry might well have vanished...
What is it about the somber landscapes and meticulously rendered portraits of Andrew Wyeth that makes them so phenomenally popular? The poetic magic of their realism, which not only equals but surpasses the photographic image, some feel. "It is Wyeth's feeling of loneliness that makes people respond-that feeling that exists in every human being at some time in his life," suggested one curator as Wyeth's 223-picture retrospective exhibition arrived at Manhattan's Whitney Museum last week...