Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early, swashbuckling advances of the White cossacks and the supporting British fighter squadron with which Aten flew. His book catches the enthusiasm which swept across the anti-Communist armies and which made the toast "Christmas in Moscow" a Cossack watchword. And finally, the dream shattered and the Communist counter-offensive moving forward irrevocably, Aten's narrative makes up the ghastly retreat to the Black Sea and the eventual evacuation of Allied forces from under the guns of the Bolshevik advance guard...
School by school, counter by counter, bus by bus. integration continues to creep across the U.S. South. Recent advances...
...Following a similar strategy of not publicizing the event ahead of time, Atlanta's merchants, Negro leaders and city officials cooperated in smoothly integrating lunch counters in the city's department, drug and variety stores. Small groups of Negroes quietly slipped onto counter stools-and were served without protest. They are continuing to test nearly 180 counters in some 75 stores covered by a carefully negotiated agreement between white and Negro leaders...
Asked if the Defense Department might attempt to halt any real efforts for disarmament, Sohn pointed out that the Pentagon has itself created an arms control commission. The vested interest of the military, he added, can be counter-acted by the "fighting spirit" of the disarmament agency...
...Awash in drink and glory, Newman finds his fingers filling up with whisky, and lets Gleason clean him out. Then, like all the fallen heroes in the legends, he goes down into the underworld. At an all-night coffee counter in a Greyhound bus depot he meets a puffy-pretty alcoholic (Piper Laurie), huts up with her and, whenever he needs money, hustles suckers in low poolrooms where he is not known. One night he takes the wrong chump. Four wharf rats gang him and break his thumbs-a mythological emasculation if ever there was one. Soon after that...