Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Soviet demands that he pack the Central Committee with conservatives, Dubcek rallied support for his progressives at grass-roots meetings. The press was still free enough to help, pinpointing and decrying meetings of "factionalist" conservatives, thus enabling Dubcek to counter their bid for popular support...
...Soviets seemed to be settling into Czechoslovakia for a long stay. With a treaty signed in Prague, the Russians last week imposed a legal veneer on their occupation. They reserved the privilege to intervene in Czechoslovak affairs whenever they again detect another threat of "counter-revolution." The Kremlin is likely to use that clause to intimidate First Party Secretary Alexander Dubcek from attempting to reinstate his earlier liberalization policies. On the military front, Moscow gained the right to station troops on Czechoslovak soil indefinitely...
...spite of the loss of both its starting fullbacks, Harvard's JV soccer team is expected to roll over its M.I.T. counter-part today...
Once the necessity of the youth's decline becomes known, Senelick asserts a masterly control. He counter-points the rapes and deceits which finally consume everyone on stage, (except perhaps the bourgeois Leantio, whose "breeding" makes life at court intolerable) with a rich display of period objects and customs. The two themes, the perversion of every code of conduct and the persistent and self-serving reverence for the code itself come together in the final scene: the principals all do one another in while the Duke of Florence, portrayed with a peculiar accent by Jonathan Raymond, complains that none...
...objections to ROTC units at Harvard are based on opposition to the American government's policies in Vietnam and other nations in the underdeveloped world. Because we see this policy as an expansionist and counter-revolutionary one, our objections to ROTC are definitely political and go beyond what Colonel Pell rightly calls "academic/administrative issues" such as merely depriving ROTC of course credit. The "right" to be trained by ROTC as an officer in the United States Armed Forces is an opportunity, in Colonel Pell's words, to "stand at the head of a platoon of 44 other young Americans...