Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...started cashing their cached U.S. dollars into pesos for the trip home. But having once tasted freedom after 31 years of tyranny, the 3,000,000 Dominicans were not to be so easily denied. An angry public refused to surrender, and with a timely nudge from the U.S., a counter-coup put down the dictator...
...electricians (as one concession, Van Arsdale agreed to allow 1,000 additional apprentices to be trained). More important, the settlement made Van Arsdale a man to reckon with in the labor movement, breathed new life into U.S. labor's drive to spread the work as a way to counter automation. In this year's most crucial labor negotiations, David J. McDonald promises that his United Steelworkers will make reduced work time "a fighting issue...
...promptly explain that their caterwauling tantrums are not simple diaper and meal calls, as adults believe, but stem from a voracious and frustrated thirst for learning. They want to walk, talk, build houses, and have babies of their own. Their keepers, a fat mother who gorges herself on candy-counter goodies and a nurse who gobbles up drugstore novels, are shown to be truly infantile. But after the age-group hourglass has been turned upside down, the sands of drama merely trickle through, and the effect is cute rather than acute...
Fifty-One Barnard Hall signatures indicate the girls' dissatisfaction with the present system of serving "sit-down" dinners Sunday noon and most weekday evenings. However, a counter petition was also posted in Barnard, with 15 girls expressing approval of the present arrangement...
...great decision evidently much on Castro's mind was the decision to be taken Jan. 22 by the OAS: whether to invoke sanctions against him. To counter the conference, Castro decreed that "on Jan. 22 we are going to convoke the second national general assembly of the people of Cuba. It will be the most gigantic act of the revolution and of the people." Castro apparently intends to demonstrate to Latin America that so long as he can assemble great crowds to shout slogans in unison, why in the world would anyone want free elections...