Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...afternoon last fortnight, such a spring freshet bubbled up in the textile city of Greensboro, N.C. (pop. 125,000) when four young college students-freshmen from the Negro Agricultural and Technical College-walked into the F.W. Woolworth store on South Elm Street and quietly sat down at the lunch counter. The white patrons eyed them warily, and the white waitresses ignored their studiously polite requests for service. The students continued to sit until closing time. Next morning they reappeared, reinforced by 25 fellow students. By last week their unique sitdown had spread through 14 cities in five Southern states...
...anguish, decided to do nothing. (Negroes account for at least one-fourth of all business transacted in the 300 Southern branches of Woolworth's alone.) Local managers solved the problems in different ways: in Charlotte, the proprietor of the local McLellan Store unscrewed the seats from the lunch counter. Some Kress, Walgreen and Liggett stores roped off the seats so that everybody had to stand, or closed the lunch counters altogether...
Later that day, Syrian forces moved back into the ruins of Tawafik, after U.N. officials had won the usual assurances of a cease-fire amid the usual counter-exchanges of boasts and threats. Cairo claimed to have killed 38 Israelis (Israel said it lost only three), and two Syrian MIG pilots were decorated after an aerial dogfight in which, said the Israelis, the MIGs fired wildly out of range...
...ship boarded by pirates." But official U.S. policy toward Cuba, as written by President Eisenhower, is to keep calm and wait it out, letting the Cuban people, who have a long history of hating totalitarianism, handle their own problem. Amidst signs of Mikoyan's success there were counter-signs that Cuban love of liberty was at work. The student demonstration was a blow at Castro, and the perils implicit as Mikoyan courted Cuba were the topic of many a sidewalk debate...
...York's busy over-the-counter market, the stock of the obscure Oreclone Concentrating Corp., holder of a process of treating low-grade iron ores to make them commercially usable, created a sensation. Issued last fall at $3 a share, the stock bounded to $30. But three weeks ago the price plunged from $28 to $2 in eight hours. Last week, after investigating this giddy performance, New York Attorney General Louis J. Lefkowitz charged that "professional racketeers, promoters and boiler-room operators" had bilked investors of $4,000,000. Only this time, said Lefkowitz, the public had company...