Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decision was 180° counter to last July's ruling by a three-judge panel in Atlanta whose effect was to uphold the Public Accommodations section. The Supreme Court has already agreed to hear an appeal from the Atlanta decision. For the time being, however, the Birmingham ruling is a plus for Barry, since it tends to confirm his doubts about the constitutionality of the Civil Rights...
...group demands that Khanh clean house on all "corrupt, dishonest and counterrevolutionary" army officers, civil servants and profiteers-and threatens Khanh's ouster if those rather sweeping conditions are not met. But who is to say who, in all of South Viet Nam, is "corrupt, dishonest and counter-revolutionary"? Now, in addition to the steady pressures exerted on him by Catholics and Buddhists, Punch Toy Premier Khanh faces the even more random fists of self-seeking Young Turks...
...angrily opposed the Negro-staged boycotts and suffered much criticism from civil-righters as a result, announced that he would ask district attorneys to investigate whether all three boycotts were criminal conspiracies to violate the state's compulsory education law. Yet some Negro leaders were talking of new counter-boycotts, and whites were planning a march on city hall...
...even those few who spoke up are afraid of what might strike them if they did anything. So they do nothing. "I think it's terrible what's happening down here. If a man can pay for the meal, why shouldn't he eat at the same lunch counter with me? Really, I was brought up in this custom, you know, but I just feel like I'm sinning every time I sit in a citizen's council meeting and don't say what I feel. Those meetings aren't helping anybody. I wish I knew what I could...
...Gospel accounts of the Crucifixion to imply that the Jews were guilty of deicide. This declaration was bitterly opposed by Catholic bishops from the Middle East, who share the anti-Israel feelings of their Moslem neighbors, and by many European conservatives, who argued that Bea's text ran counter to what the New Testament plainly says...