Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wall Street, they began calling it "the open-mouth policy." Out of Washington last week poured a torrent of talk about the economy, clearly designed to halt the stock market slide and to counter the impression made by William McChesney Martin Jr. in his "1920s speech" three weeks ago. President Johnson, who often uses the jawbone technique to get things done, called upon just about everyone on his team - with the understandable exception of Bill Martin - to soothe Wall Street's jittery nerves and hymn the economy's health. It was quite a performance, and it worked...
...over: there is no aspect of sex, however recondite, that is not portrayed at length in novels published by respectable U.S. houses and sold freely in bookstores (TIME Essay, April 16). Doggedly, Grove Press continues to issue Miller's novels, long available only abroad or under the counter...
...more when Negroes are served side by side with whites at Krystal restaurants, a chain that sells 100 hamburgers all over town. Yet only 17 months ago, Connecticut College Coed Mardon Walker, 18, was considered such a menace when she joined a sit-in at a Krystal counter that she was arrested for trespass and hauled before Fulton County's terrible-tempered Judge Durward...
...proposal has thus far met with little opposition, Kramnick said, and only one counter-proposal has been presented. This suggestion would have made the Gov 99 grade like the Gov 98 grade, which is based half on the tutor's grade and half on the junior essay...
Balloons and squeals filled the air as the combatants attacked and counter-attacked for five minutes. Everyone then switched to water-pistols, and the Harvard attack momentarily hesitated as Cliffies opened up a perfume barrage...