Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pentagon planning now puts relatively more emphasis than it did a few years ago on "graduated" or "flexible" responses. The nuclear striking power of strategic bomber and missile forces remains the nation's ultimate defense, but defense policy no longer envisions that those forces would be used to counter limited aggression. This flexible-response doctrine, as General Taylor labeled it, stirred misgivings among some Air Force and civilian strategists. They argued that it might encourage Communists to risk limited aggression, might even weaken the effectiveness of nuclear striking power as a deterrent against a major Communist thrust. The debate...
...facilities ingeniously. The first scene, aboard the ship Empress Pantagonia, opens on the couple seated on deck chairs in front of several blue, paint-spattered screens whose swirling color suggests the ocean. Later the same screens serve as an inconspicuous backdrop for an attractive and colorful village-shop counter where the writer again meets the shopgirl...
...Atlantic Edition has more readers in Ireland per capita than anywhere else in Europe. Last week's cover story on Prime Minister Lemass quickly replaced Kennedy's visit as a subject of Irish conversation. News dealers in Dublin and Cork had to put copies under the counter for their regulars, though thousands of extra copies were rushed over from London. It was a great day for the Irish-so much so that when the leader of the parliamentary opposition, whose name was unfortunately not mentioned in the story, took to the floor to accuse the government of being...
...offered a job in the Gehlen service. "Now," he said, "I was to dance at two weddings, with the Russians and with Gehlen." Felfe danced up fast in Gehlen's ranks, and by the time of his arrest in 1961 had become a department head in the counter-espionage division, specializing in anti-Soviet work...
...ringing. A North Carolina bowling-alley proprietor argues that "white people just aren't going to bowl with colored people-they don't want to use a ball that Negroes have been using." John Carswell, a Chapel Hill drugstore owner, contends that desegregation of his lunch counter would cause "incidents," and many Southern hotelmen profess to fear that if they admitted Negroes, their white trade would go to competitors...