Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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North Carolina-whose biggest city, Charlotte, ended lunch-counter segregation; see BUSINESS, Time Clock...
...LUNCH COUNTER VICTORY was won by Negroes in Charlotte, N.C., second city in state to agree to serve whites and Negroes alike (first: Winston-Salem). In Knoxville, Tenn., three stores (Miller's, Sears, Roebuck & Co., and Rich's) closed lunch counters permanently because of sit-ins. Texas' J. Weingarten, Inc., with 45 lunch counters in its supermarkets, is installing automatic equipment in some for integrated stand-up lunches...
...slim support he was getting from his mother and from his teaching job at New York University, and above all gave him the sort of encouragement he needed to produce Look Homeward, Angel. Wolfe was an oppressive lover. He was sickly jealous, perhaps fearful that he might be counter-cuckolded by Bernstein, and so boorish that he constantly called her "my Jew" and made such entries in his diary as "Met Jew at 11:00." When he eventually cut himself off from her because he thought that the affair was stifling his career, she wrote him letters signed...
...Japanese fears, few big U.S. manufacturers took up the cudgels against them. Ross Siragusa, president of Admiral Corp.-which imports no components from Japan, but competes with firms that do-called for a U.S. boycott of Japanese products "as a counter-demonstration to the cancellation of the Japanese government's invitation to President Eisenhower." He pointed out that Japan sold more than 5,000,000 transistor radios in the U.S. in 1959, charged that jobs have been lost as a result of Japanese imports. Recently, the Japanese government announced plans to limit the export of transistors...
...games is called "openers" and consists of inventing bizarre movie situations. Quite a few of them reach the screen. One of his most famous openers, eventually used in Bluebeard's Eighth Wife: a man (Gary Cooper) and a girl (Claudette Colbert) meet at a d'epartment store counter because she tries to buy only the pants of a pair of pajamas and he only the top. One of Wilder's current and so far unused openers : the Russians kidnap a famous American actress, who might be Marilyn Monroe, in West Berlin; they take her away to brainwash...