Word: reactional
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...think the North Koreans have been, frankly, a little bit disappointed that people are not jumping up and down and running around with their hair on fire." CONDOLEEZZA RICE, U.S. Secretary of State, on the muted global reaction to North Korea's latest nuclear weapons disclosures and its pullout from multilateral disarmament talks...
...first there were varying explanations for the small scab on the right side of the President's nose. It was described by White House Spokesman Larry Speakes as the result of "skin irritation, a gathering of skin, a piling up of skin," possibly aggravated by "an allergic reaction" to adhesive tape that had held a naso-gastric tube in place following Reagan's surgery last month for colon cancer. Actually, it was a bit more than that, as the President himself finally admitted. "I had, well, I guess for want of a better word, a pimple," he explained last week...
...capitulating to the kidnapers. Even before the exchange of prisoners, an advertisement in the national newspaper El Diario de Hoy asked, "How will it be explained to the soldiers who in the field of battle captured these freed insurrectionists?" Of more immediate concern to the President was the reaction of the Salvadoran armed forces, which lately have had a hard time combatting the guerrillas' hit-and-run attacks. One field commander circulated a petition objecting to the negotiations with the guerrillas. Duarte did not have much time to ponder the consequences of his actions. Just one day after his daughter...
...police antiriot squads. Accounts of what happened next differ. The demonstrators said a motorcycle policeman rammed into the crowd and other police quickly joined him, firing at the crowd with live ammunition. The police, however, said the demonstrators mauled the officer and provoked the police into a reaction by throwing rocks and homemade bombs. In any event, the results were tragic. Two students were killed, one instantly; about 20 other demonstrators were wounded, and several policemen suffered shrapnel wounds...
...went to see it at his office, and I was surprised at my own reaction. I looked at it, and I cried--like my grandfather had cried with the flag--and I knew in an instant that I would wish to buy it. I knew in that same instant that I would never just hang it on the wall in my home and that, if I could get it, I would find a way for it to travel...