Word: reacted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with such force that a pageboy darted forth to rescue a nearby glass of water. Some Northern Republicans, e.g., New Hampshire's Styles Bridges and Massachusetts' Leverett Saltonstall, who had voted for the bill, looked nervously toward their gas-consuming constituencies to watch how the voters would react to Ike's charge of impropriety...
Cuba (pop. 6,100,000). President Fulgencio Batista gives far more freedom than the other three strongmen. But Cubans are restive. University students, courting martyrdom, clash constantly with Batista's police, who often react hotheadedly. A fortnight ago a 22-year-old girl student was cruelly tortured, and the regime, rightly or wrongly, got the blame. To relieve the heat and pressure, Batista may have to make the concession that his opposition demands: free elections soon...
...farmers? They deny it, argue that increased costs for wages (up 16% in the packing industry from 1954 to 1955), trucking, etc. helped keep the price of beef up. Furthermore, the great increase in processing, e.g., for frozen and readycut meats, builds in costs that make retail prices react slower to wholesale price drops...
Development of characters, by tracing their psychological and environmental background, seems to be director John Huston's central aim. The Asphalt Jungle, like its descendants, has no intricate plot. The emphasis must fall on the characters' past and how they react to the strain of the monumental crime they commit. Huston succeeds with some of his players and fails with others. The realism he tries to create is ofen shattered by weak dialogue and an implausible story. He has not mastered startling photographic technique. When these attempts at effect fail to divert attention from the stupid, simple plot, the suspense...
...justice and right. If you are going to do that and are not going to be guilty, every time the thing looks dangerous, of a Munich, you have got to stand firmly. You may interpret that as being at the brink of something, because the other fellow can react according to his own desires and what he believes to be his best interests...