Word: counter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wets' chief attack on Prohibition had been that it was no benefit to industry and business, that no part of Prosperity was attributable to its influence. To combat this view was the prime purpose of Dry witnesses. In their zeal they went to what seemed unfair lengths by a counter charge that the Wets favored a return of the saloon. Hardly a Wet witness had appeared before the committee who had not specifically, emphatically, disowned the saloon as a liquor institution...
...open revolt and in so doing placed the faculty in a position of defense. Caught in the wheels of a precedent of three years standing, the fear of scorn from other classes forced the sophomores to carry out a performance which many thought "fool-hardy and dangerous." Acting directly counter to a student-faculty agreement, the student committee was not consulted until the evening following the edict depriving them of cuts...
...Special police stood guard. It was even suggested that buckets of water be set about the Senate floor so that brave members might quickly douse any explosive tossed from the galleries. Senators complained that they were being mysteriously spied upon, that their offices had been ransacked at night. A counter espionage was established by Sergeant at Arms Barry. The Senate wing side door was locked and all visitors had to file through a single entrance under the sharp inspection of special guards. Night sessions on the tariff only added to members' nervous apprehension...
...hundreds of thousands of Manhattanites he represents. He works because he has to, in order to have fun-also because he has to. His fun may seem cheap to you; it was expensive to him. One night cost him most of a week's pay; taking a lunch-counter waitress to the cinema, then a round of speakeasies, taxis, dancing, drunkenness, a fight; home again in the subway to catch two hours' sleep before the office; his mother's light still...
...successive penalties cleared the way for the first counter, which was scored after several scrimmages in front of the Dartmouth net by Putnam on a pass from M. B. Stone, Jr. '33. Putnam scored again in the middle of the second period after rushing for the length of the rink and temporarily losing the puck Harvard continued to carry the game to the Dartmouth end for the rest of the period, but several dangerous shots were blocked by Rocker, the Indian goalie, although a four man attack was used Dartmouth failed to score...