Word: counter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...session was hurriedly adjourned to prevent more of it. It became so much of a habit with the prosecution to ask him if he was a Red, if he was a Marxist, if he admired the Soviets, if he advocated bloody revolution, and so forth, that he adopted a counter habit of answering repeatedly and loudly: "Self-evident!" This tactic irritated one judge very much and he interrupted one day to tell Dimitroff: "Anyone would think you believed this court was trying to waste its time and yours with irrelevant questions!" Dimitroff rose quickly and shouted: "Self-evident!" CASTOR...
...Government would countenance no counter terrorism, would set up no concentration camps for political prisoners like the Nazi camps in Germany. No sooner was he off for Switzerland than Vice Chancellor Fey, now Acting Chancellor, ordered the first two such camps set up near Vienna, one at Wollersdorff, the other at Bruck an der Leitha. Nazis and "persons against whom well-grounded suspicion exists that they are preparing for or assisting in treasonable actions," will not only be interned there, but must pay their own keep. Chancellor Dollfuss ignored Vice Chancellor Fey's doings but bristled up in Geneva...
...Brien and his adviser, Samuel Untermyer, threatened Manhattan with a major economic calamity. To escape the Mayor's new 4?-a-share stock transfer tax and 5% levy on brokers' gross income, not only the Stock Exchange but the Curb and Produce Exchanges, the over-the-counter dealers and all appendages of Manhattan's vast securities business were ready to join the Jersey hegira. For Mayor O'Brien had inadvertently brought home a great truth to the men who buy & sell the nation's securities: that whether or not Mayor O'Brien...
Since the fall of Machado there has been much talk about the part Cuban students played in his overthrow. The largest, most effective organization in the revolution was the ABC. It started among young graduates of Havana University, fought Machado terrorism with counter-terrorism by cells of ten men each. Its effectiveness brought older, stabler heads into the ABC who took over its direction, set up the moderate government of Carlos de Cespedes. Older than the ABC is the Students' Directorate which has no prudent grey-head members, wants a Cuban Utopia here and now. It backs and directs...
...went into a gun shop, where Meek made Wood buy a new revolver. Returning to the apartment, they passed through crowded, bustling Crystal Palace Market. Meek decided he wanted to eat some walnuts, went with his prisoner into a shop to buy them. When he stepped up to the counter. Wood spied a policeman. Suddenly nerved, he cried: "Look out, that man has a gun!" and started to run. Meek wheeled around, fatally wounded the policeman in the chest, then backed slowly away. After him came a crowd of butchers and shoppers. One of the butchers flung a knife...