Word: count
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...asked reporters, if someone tried to blind the man standing next to them by hurling oven cleaner? Though oven cleaner may have been used as a weapon by a few protesters, it was not the standard equipment that Daley and others implied. By the police department's own count, only five of 198 injuries to police could have been caused by spray in the face...
...victory mean, and what will it bring? Will it inspire advocates of the New Politics-young, rebellious and impatient for change-to greater battles and more broken heads? Will it solidify the silent masses of settled, older Americans into rigid and angry resistance? Mayor Daley's mail count, despite press objections to his tactics, is running 20 to 1 in his favor...
...know that you can count...
Imperial Russian counts have never carried much clout in the Soviet Union. But Count Leo Tolstoy is somebody special. Last week marked the 140th birth day of the great author, whose deep sympathy for the restive peasants of his day has earned him the approval of the Kremlin. To honor the occasion there was a large party at Moscow's State Museum and a mass pilgrimage to his grave. For a change, party functionaries and intellectuals found something they could celebrate together...
...last count, some 26 million Americans were going down to the sea-or lake or river-in 5,400,000 power boats. Many of them, of course, have become experts at the game, and even the neophytes usually get home in one piece. The water, contrary to legend, is more forgiving than, say, the thin air or a concrete abutment. Even so, the Coast Guard responded to 43,000 "Mayday"* distress calls last year, the vast majority of them from power-boatmen, who also accounted for 875 of the 1,312 deaths on the water...