Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russians could only counter with demands for nuclear disarmament without controls. Both sides soon realized that the negotiations were futile. But both kept up the pretence. As Harold Stassen has pointed out, the diplomats soon developed a standardized technique: either side would submit an extremely complex proposal that would prolong negotiations, but that they knew would be ultimately found unacceptable. Time was gained for military development at home, and the rejection of plans could be trumpeted abroad as a sign of the opponents' bad faith...
...squad: Major William Morgan, 32, U.S.-born adventurer, who, only a year ago, won Castro's praise for foiling a guerrilla landing in Cuba by playing double agent. Found guilty of smuggling arms to anti-Castro guerrillas, Morgan at 10:30 one night last week became the 598th counter-revolutionary to be executed by the Castro government...
...million-took place in retail inventories, while the factory inventory reduction of $100 million was smaller than the rate of previous months. While factory inventories have been declining, retail stocks have tended to remain high. This led economists to fear that pile-up of goods at the retail counter because of poor sales might hold off new ordering by retailers. January's figures showed that the factory inventory decline is finally slowing, and that goods are moving off the retailers' shelves...
...alleged unpatriotism (a cover depicting the Father of Our Country crossing the Delaware), the 1925 parody of Literary Digest was removed from the newsstands and banned by the Post Office. It eventually sold under the counter for eight dollars a copy...
...counter-demonstrators' whose read, "Abolish the Un-Ameri- Activities Committee," lay just to a venerable tradition of rican dissent. Their rivals in attan Center upheld a different age. They called themselves ng Americans for Freedom," their posters honored Senator y Goldwater, who would key- their meeting. Their ideology with in a some kind of God, in al rights, and in classical ecocs, combined with nationalist ments -- is familiar indeed: egacy of Jefferson, of Hoover, aft. . . and a bit of McCarthy. The generally thinks of their as "conservative," yet in a the Young Americans For dom are radicals. For they...