Word: responded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manhood Regained. Instead of smelling out his mates and attacking them with bites, as Mr. Cain's earlier heroes did, Jack never once smells a girl; he responds to visual appeal. It is, in fact, at the point that he does not respond to it-when he has been riding the rails as a hobo for some months and a Petty girl strips and wiggles for him in a passing compartment -that he realizes he will have to do something (i.e., steal) to regain his manhood. The emotional crisis is at length resolved by an oilman's wife...
Hyperthyroidism types are touchy, temperamental, "respond to the environment like an Aeolian harp." They are emotionally sensitive, and can be upset by harsh words or looks. Their moods swing so wildly between ecstasy and depression that they may become insane; many are artists, poets, actors, writers. They are emotionally immature, often sexually cold...
...normal circumstances," he cabled, "I should respond at once . . . But my return at this time, however sincere its purpose, would be understood and condemned by many as politically inspired ... It would be peculiarly repugnant to. me to have it felt that I sought to capitalize to political advantage, as many have frankly urged, the public good will which might manifest itself upon my first return to American soil . . . For such good will would find its inspiration in the victory which crowned our Pacific war effort to which countless gallant Americans, living and dead, contributed . . . Usurpation of such good will...
...hope." But many Europeans, who had expected the U.S. to draw a geographic line against Communist expansion and back it with a military guarantee, were disappointed and wondered what could happen next. Wrote the London Times: "If the American Congress and people, already excited and alarmed, do not respond promptly and in full to [this] appeal for practical measures, more harm than good may well be done. Flames already high will be fanned, and the fire extinguisher will still not be fashioned. . . . But if the politicians and citizens of the U.S. do respond with firm deeds . . . new history will...
Official endorsement last night came from Dean Bender who authorized the committee. "By supporting the drive," he stated, "Harvard will demonstrate its concern for and moral support of a group who will help to shape the world of tomorrow. I hope the students and faculty will respond generously...