Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wallace's conservatism and only tangentially fascinated by his racism. Negro demands should be painted as traditionally American and mainly legal, as pleas for human rights, not for social or racial equality. Talk of de facto segregaton and housing covenants should be judiciously avoided. The campaign, in short, must counter racist demogoguery by appealing to the paternalistic self-righteousness of the suburbanite...
Theoretically at least, no customer need walk more than 75 ft. from car to counter. Says Project Manager Albert Kennerly: "For the first time in modern times the auto is brought to the curb of the store. It will be just like parking on Main Street in front of your favorite shop...
...Secretary Douglas Dillon let it be known that the Treasury would take its time about deciding what to do with the cartwheels that remained. Possible alternatives: melt them down, auction them off to dealers and collectors, put price tags on them and sell them over the counter, or put the whole thing up to Congress...
...first flush of Pop art because he painted still lifes of cakes, pies and other frosted delights. Although he was as much concerned with Russian icons ("I see myself as a very conservative artist connected with tradition"), he rapidly became known as the laureate of the lunch counter...
Scientific evidence," said Dr. Klerman, "runs counter to the claims of Richard Alpert and others that psilocybin is safe. Nor is there evidence that it can help the mentally disturbed or produce important insights for normal people...