Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thought another such radical gathering taking place. Hundreds of pla- waving young men, women, teenagers milled around the s, while a squad of New York's strian finest diligently tried to order. Across the street a ller group marched sullenly up down with a different set of : the inevitable counter-de-stration...
...said the French; the British must first agree to join the Common Market itself. The British as usual counter that to draw closer to Europe means drawing away from the Commonwealth, which they do not want to do. How can Britain get in on the discussions without committing itself? Adenauer outlined to Macmillan a solution of the kind so beloved by diplomats: Why not get the British into the European conversations through the existing but moribund seven-nation Western Europe Union? It was plainly a stall. Sooner or later Britain must make the decision itself: inside Europe...
Mindful that the French had set off an atomic blast in the Sahara a year ago, Dr. Kettlewell last spring collected early-arriving migratory moths and examined them under a Geiger counter. One specimen of Nomophila noctuella, a pale buff moth with a one-inch wingspread, showed a suspiciously high count. He pressed it on X-ray film and found that the radiation was coming not from the moth as a whole but from a single small spot in the thorax...
VOLKSWAGEN U.S. SALES, running directly counter to most imported car sales, hit a monthly record in December of 15,523. VW's total 1960 car registrations soared 33% over 1959 to 159,995, while total import registrations were dropping from 1959's high...
While there are more than 100 differing factions working for Castro's overthrow, the most powerful counter-revolutionists favor a government along "reasonable, social-democratic lines," the Cuban commented...