Word: react
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cross dentists bear is that patients fear and dislike them, a group of psychiatrists told the California State Dental Association. Further conclusions of the psychiatrists: 1) dentists sometimes react to their patients' antagonism by causing them unnecessary pain; 2) just as the man in the chair needs a break now & then to spit, so the dentist needs a break occasionally-to spit or even swear a little, and thus relieve his own tensions...
...None of this is painful. On the contrary, it is convenient ... It would be senseless to bewail this state of affairs. Only one thing counts: How can we get out of it? One thing alone is certain: if public opinion understood what goes on, it would react violently. Apathy is not in the nature of the country. It is the result of lies . . . Since March 1945 not a single minister has resigned because he is refused the means to pursue the policy which he believes necessary. Not a single spontaneous resignation in a France eaten away by lies and collusion...
...limbo; it was their tossing in his arms that bothered him. Said he: "Please, please try to bring your children along before they are two months old. Babies of six months and over are uncommonly awkward to handle. When the baptismal water is poured over their heads, they react strongly and try to get away . . . That can be quite tricky with a healthy, struggling infant. I don't mind the noise, but it's a bit too much when they try to fight the priest...
From behind the Iron Curtain last week came fragmentary but reliable news of how the subject peoples of Eastern Europe reacted to Stalin's death. In the big cities of Rumania, Hungary and Poland, many celebrated the event by covertly hoisting a few drinks. In Budapest the Reds herded some 500,000 into newly renamed Stalin Square on Dozsa György Ut for a mass demonstration of grief; but the crowd responded only with passive sullenness. In Bucharest there was thinly concealed satisfaction on the faces of Rumanians in the street, and a flurry of minor panic among...
...moments of passion or tenderness. This sort of thing is good for a yuk the first time, but after the third repetition even the fellers and gals of the John Hancock Life Insurance Company, which had bought out the orchestra the night I saw the play, began to react a bit slowly...