The planes, light with most of the gas burned out, responded beautifully.

He stroked the hens and they responded with delighted clucks, he gobbled with the turkeys and they at once were all attention, he quacked with the ducks, and cackled with a pair of exceedingly flattered geese.

Perhaps the most important incentive for them will be clear evidence that where other countries have done this kind of home work we have responded with long-term commitments.

The railroads have responded by adding 20,000 more box cars with doors 12' or wider for forklift unloading ( a 21% increase while the total number of box cars was falling 6% ) and by cutting their freight rates twice on lumber shipped in heavily loaded cars.

Those who responded with an arm-elevation in the naive state did not change their reaction when told that there were some normal people who did not react in this fashion.

And the evidence that he does, indeed, stand there derives quite simply from the vigorous interest with which rather casual readers have responded to that book for the past century or so.

It was only after we had responded, with what I fear were similar cliches, that she went into action by questioning our desire for friendship and understanding with a challenge about aggressive and warlike actions by the U.S. Government in Cuba and Laos.

The audience, according to Edward Cushing, responded with " a demonstration of enthusiasm impressively genuine in contrast to the conventional applause which new music, good and bad, ordinarily arouses.

But England responded with 437 and then dramatically dismissed Australia for 166 with Bobby Peel taking 6 for 67.

Haakon rejected the claim, and in the following year responded with a formidable invasion.

As the President's leniency toward the South became more apparent, the former secessionists responded with more arrogance.

He responded to questioning with charges of apostasy and handed out harsh punishments for the slightest deviations.

Fifty-one composers responded with pieces, including Beethoven, Schubert, Archduke Rudolph of Austria, F. X.

Other scholars have responded that Banquo's dreams have less to do with killing the king and more to do with Macbeth.

In August 1940, the territory responded, with the rest of the AEF, to the call from General Charles de Gaulle to fight for Free France.

In 718, Chilperic responded to Charles ' new ascendancy by making an alliance with Odo the Great ( or Eudes, as he is sometimes known ), the duke of Aquitaine, who had made himself independent during the civil war in 715, but was again defeated, at the Battle of Soissons, by Charles.

Ruddock responded to the Stasi revelations with " certainly had no influence on national CND, and as a pro-Soviet could never have succeeded to the chair.

The Germanic guard, stricken with grief and rage, responded with a rampaging attack on the assassins, conspirators, innocent senators and bystanders alike.

In its prologue, the author gratuitously insulted Cervantes, who not surprisingly took offense and responded ; the last half of Chapter LIX and most of the following chapters of Cervantes ' Segunda Parte lend some insight into the effects upon him ; Cervantes manages to work in some subtle digs at Avellaneda's own work, and in his preface to Part II, comes very near to criticizing Avellaneda directly.

" Brooks responded " The most important single decision I ever made was to change the IBM 360 series from a 6-bit byte to an 8-bit byte, thereby enabling the use of lowercase letters.

Rudyard Kipling, who wrote a history of the Irish Guards, in which his own son fought and was killed, noted that, " it is undeniable that Colonel Alexander had the gift of handling the men on the lines to which they most readily responded ... His subordinates loved him, even when he fell upon them blisteringly for their shortcomings ; and his men were all his own.

When, in 1967, after his death at the age of 91, Germans were asked what they admired most about Adenauer, the majority responded that he had brought home the last German prisoners of war from the USSR, which had become known as the " Return of the 10, 000 ".

Radama's successor, Queen Ranavalona I ( 1828 – 61 ), responded to increasing political and cultural encroachment on the part of Britain and France by issuing a royal edict prohibiting the practice of Christianity in Madagascar and pressuring most foreigners to leave the territory.

This campaign was one of his most successful at upsetting British hold on India ; Britain responded by imprisoning over 60, 000 people.

Michelangelo responded by completing his most famous work, the Statue of David, in 1504.

While some convicts responded well to the opportunities offered to become respectable, most remained " idle and miserable wretches " according to Clark, despite the climate and their isolation from previous haunts of crime.

The 1985 Giants lost 100 games ( the most in franchise history ), and owner Bob Lurie responded by hiring Al Rosen as general manager.

Later Huxley responded to Zaehner in an article published in 1961: " For most of those to whom the experiences have been vouchsafed, their value is self-evident.

In 1911, Taft responded with a vigorous stumping tour that allowed him to sign up most of the party leaders long before Roosevelt announced.

New York responded with outrage to the incident, and while some criticized Tubman for her naïveté, most sympathized with her economic hardship and lambasted the con men.

The Roman Catholic Church responded with a Counter-Reformation put in to motion by the Council of Trent — the most important ecumenical council since Nicaea II 800 years earlier ( at the time, there had not been an ecumenical council since Lateran IV over 300 years prior, a length only to be matched by the interval between Trent and Vatican I )— and spearheaded by the Society of Jesus.

) In making this decision, some members of the court complained that they were unnecessarily " abdicating " their constitutional duty to implement the most straightforward remedy, while the others responded that with this decision they had done a great deal, and the remaining decisions were political in nature.

Today, ECT is most often recommended for use as a treatment for severe depression that has not responded to other treatment, and is also used in the treatment of mania and catatonia.

Wilson responded to this apparent recovery in his government's popularity by calling a general election, but, to the surprise of most observers, was defeated at the polls by the Conservatives under Heath.

" Possibly the two most famous of all such anecdotes report that Lady Astor said to Churchill, " If you were my husband, I'd poison your tea ," to which he responded, " Madam, if you were my wife, I'd drink it!

After Jack Warner criticized her tendency to cajole crowds into buying, she reminded him that her audiences responded most strongly to her " bitch " performances.

The Dutch responded by sending a fleet under Michiel de Ruyter that recaptured their African trade posts, captured most English trade stations there and then crossed the Atlantic for a punitive expedition against the English in America.

A clinical trial of IPT for treating breast cancer was done in Uruguay and concluded that " The group treated with insulin + methotrexate responded most frequently with stable disease " compared to being treated with methotrexate alone or insulin alone.

Written in an explosive and highly colloquial style, the book shocked most critics but found immediate success with the French reading public, which responded enthusiastically to the violent misadventures of its petit-bourgeois antihero, Bardamu, and his characteristic nihilism.

An oracle was consulted which responded that the gods demanded the most precious posession of the country.

However Marcus, a young soldier, castigated them and responded that arms and courage were the most precious posessions.