Word: counter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hamilton, Bermuda, a pair of smiling pictures of the Duke & Duchess, tacked up by a newspaper counter clerk, Miss Evelyn Stovell, and captioned "They're Happy Now,'' so enraged the Rt. Rev. Arthur Heber Browne, 73, Anglican Bishop of Bermuda, that he tore them down, stalked out. Pursued to his home by Miss Stovell, who demanded her pictures back, the Bishop of Bermuda snapped: "I did not know that those pictures were the private property of Miss Stovell. ... It is disgraceful that they should have been in such a public place...
...facts turned out to be slightly different from American's facts. Mr. Patterson began by pointing out that the Rocky Mountains extend from the Canadian border to the Mexican border, and no U. S. airline can get to California without flying over them. "United," he flatly counter-claimed, "flies fewer miles of mountainous terrain than the currently advertised 'Low Level Route.' Based on a normal airway width the highest point on United is lower than that on the other advertised route.* But," he added hastily, "what of it? United's route has as much sunshine...
...attack, the Leftists avoided a frontal assault on Teruel itself, heavily fortified by the Rightists for over a year. Instead they sent from north & south two columns accompanied by tanks and planes to nip the line of communications behind the city. By the fourth day Teruel was surrounded, despite counter-attacks from the garrison of 60,000 Rightists, despite attempts of Generalissimo Franco to force relief troops through. Into the snowy streets of Teruel marched ten hostages released by the attackers to carry a promise of amnesty to all civilians and Rightists who would surrender...
Meanwhile strong possibilities developed that a counter drive was afoot to introduce a company union. It was believed that primary purpose of this move is to offset the startling progress made during the last two weeks by cooks, waitresses and bus boys towards permanent organization...
...from disillusionment to Communism, the Roman Catholic Church and suicide, Aldous Huxley, who had fallen under the spell of D. H. Lawrence, was groping his way toward mysticism. In Those Barren Leaves (1925). he announced that it is not the fools of this world who turn mystics. In Point Counter Point (1928), which took a thinly-disguised D. H. Lawrence for its hero. Huxley attacked scientific Utopias, embraced a Lawrentian humanism, with a dash more intellect, a dash less sex. In Brave New World (1932) he knocked Utopia down for another count of ten. The hero of Eyeless in Gaza...