Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rights movement must not be afraid to address itself to the problem of war. For it is marvelous to talk about integration, but we've got to have a world in which to be integrated. It's marvelous to talk about drinking milk at an integrated lunch counter, but what will that milk mean if it has strontium 90 in it? I'm not going to sit silently by the wayside and see war being escalated in our world and never rise up to say a word about it. All I know is that...
Contrary to popular notion, the President is not fond of those who continually say yes to him. He thrives on new ideas, new initiatives, innovations, fresh thinking. If a man consistently agrees and offers no new counter arguments, that man is soon not asked for advice...
...British Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan had dinner in London with Groucho Marx. What did they talk about? Says Groucho: "We discussed the British financial situation." Groucho was not kidding: that topic is foremost in many a European conversation these days. Callaghan made his trip to Washington to counter persistent fears on the Continent that Britain faces a major economic crisis in the fall and to show that, even if that should happen, Britain has a powerful financial ally in the U.S. "They are more sympathetic in the U.S.," said the Chancellor, "than on the Continent...
...process, he has rescued 800 wounded soldiers and carted home more corpses than he cares to remember. To help counter the pervasive stench of death and mutilation, MEDEVAC pilots and crewmen stuff their nostrils with Vicks VapoRub. And they are curiously unwilling to make friends with infantrymen. "You don't want to get too close to people when you know tomorrow they may be dead," Bloomquist explains. "There's no place for sentiment in this business...
...Lift. Dr. Sadusk estimated that at least 8 billion amphetamine tablets are produced each year, and that no less than half of them go into illegal, nonprescription channels, for sale under the counter at bars, gas stations and restaurants. The profits are enough to give even the surliest gangster an amphetamine lift: he can buy the tablets wholesale for $1 a thousand or less, and resell them at $30 to $50 a thousand, while the illicit retailer sells them at a nickel or a dime apiece and takes in from $50 to $100 a thousand...