Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which had made the cease-fire its only small condition for attending the conference, had no ready counter. The pro-Western Laotian Premier, Prince Boun Oum, who has been sitting on the Riviera doing nothing in particular, was not much help. "The Pathet Lao are the strongest on all fronts," he wailed. "They will capture Vientiane, Luangprabang, Savannakhet, anything they want. Nothing can stop them." Prince Boun Oum hoped to get together with his rival princes to plead for peace. But Prince Souvanna was openly contemptuous. "Boun Oum is playing hide-and-seek," he said. "If we would...
...been completed." But the junta plainly figured that this mission was going to take a long time to complete. Last week it issued a 24-article proclamation that effectively destroyed the Korean constitution. The edict dispensed with the National Assembly, abolished the civil judiciary system, threatened retroactive laws against counter-revolutionary acts...
...preached the dogma of excess as an esthetic necessity. He applauded Shelley for agreeing with Blake "that Reason not only created Ugliness, but all other evils." Such statements seem slightly more reasonable when Yeats is placed where he belongs, with the first wave of what might be called the Counter-Industrial Revolution. His obsession with myths, magic and symbols was a poet's way of fighting the machine. In a poet's intuitive fashion, he was plumbing the "collective unconscious" before Jung labeled it, celebrating the irrational before Freud discovered its starring role. Far from having the gift...
Nikita Khrushchev could not match the glamour of the Kennedys' Paris visit in his own progress toward Vienna, but he did his best. To counter Jackie, he brought along his stout, pleasant-featured wife Nina (who was recently caught staring wistfully at high-fashion corsets at the British Trade Fair in Moscow). He arranged stopovers to receive welcomes from his own "allies." Boarding his private railroad car in Moscow, he stopped first at Kiev and then at Lvov, where a dutiful crowd turned out to cheer-even though Lvov is a Polish city snatched by the Ukraine after World...
...Flexible dishwasher, produced by Ling-Temco Electronics, designed to fit into many areas hitherto inaccessible to conventional dishwashers. It can be recessed in a wall, mounted on a wall, placed on top of a counter, below a built-in range or hung as a room divider. Price...