Word: reacted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that has reigned in Hollywood for 30 or 40 years. He learned the trick of making movies about horses, for horses, and he got terribly wealthy." But Sam Goldwyn is "a higher-class fellow. A fine producer, he has no head . . . He has a very intellectual stomach. It would react at a distance of 50 pages. If you were reading a script and it had a wrong passage, Sam's stomach would react. He would turn pale and green...
...like to live under Communism? "The misfortune of a man in a totalitarian country is the feeling, a feeling that never leaves him, of the grotesqueness and ridiculousness of one's own self-the reduction of dreams-the reduction of desires-a moral atrophy-the inability to react to the vileness one sees at every step, every...
Peterson did not think his club would react favorably to Weiss' suggestion of having political organizations sponsor delegates to NSA conferences...
...country where history often repeats itself because its citizens react, like Pavlov's dogs, to bells rung by historical parallels, the Presidency of the Fifth Republic might well travel the same road as the Presidency of the Third...
...their time. One day, when a U.S. Senator brought in a friend to ask a favor, Holloway said in the lawyer's tone that Congressmen understood and admired: "I look to you, Senator, to help me maintain my probity." Holloway added afterward: "No Congressman ever failed to react to such a plea...