Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kimball's apartment opens on a narrow, well worn, and slightly fish-smelling staircase near the middle of the building. After maneuvering around several sharp corners, we arrived at the top, directly confronting Maria Kimball. She greeted us right hand fairly defiantly extended, feet firmly planted as if to counter a ship's pitch, and left hand crammed against her hip like a sailor...
...years, Assistant Treasury Secretary Stanley S. Surrey has damned the "provisions favoring special groups or special individuals that run counter to our notions of tax fairness." Commissioner of Internal Revenue Mortimer Caplin has long yearned to cut taxes from 91% to 65% in the highest brackets, and from 20% to 10% in the lowest brackets, chinking loopholes to stanch the loss. Walter Heller, the President's chief economic adviser, would cut the maximum rate to 60%, reduce the lowest rates from 20% to 14%. All three oppose what Heller calls "upsidedown subsidies," such as oil and mining depletion allowances...
...took Nikita Khrushchev himself to talk stubborn Author Sholokhov into revising the ending (although Sholokhov denies it), in which his Communist hero committed suicide after being jailed on false charges during the Stalin purges. Even with its patchy, rewritten last chapter - the hero is now killed by White counter-revolutionists - Harvest on the Don is an extraordinary book to come officially from Russia. It is frankly critical of much in Soviet life, and sings with a kind of individualism obviously incompatible with Marxist philosophy...
Presently, the U. S. has little more than a finite deterrent--a strategy that deters Russian provocation by threatening to hit their cities. Most critics of national strategy plead for some limited war forces and some counter-force capability...
...their shoulder-padded expense accounts, a neatly dressed young comedian talks about the race problem. "Segregation is not all bad," he says. "Have you ever heard of a wreck where the people on the back of the bus got hurt?" And, on sit-ins: "I sat at a lunch counter for nine months," he discloses. "When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted." The audience always laughs and usually applauds the performer, who is just getting started on what may be one of the more significant careers in American show business. With intelligence, sophistication, and none...