Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first Eastern European ruler to achieve his independence from the Soviet overlordship but also served as an inspiration to Czechoslovak Party First Secretary Alexander Dubcek in his ill-starred search to find a measure of freedom within Communism. The recent Soviet press campaign against Tito ("lover of counter-revolution") and his country is almost as bitter as the one against West Germany. At a meeting last summer on his resort isle of Bnoni in the Adriatic, Tito got into a shouting match with Soviet Ambassador Ivan Benediktov. "Lies! Lies!" cried Tito, as the Soviet diplomat read a note from Moscow...
...clear that such a competition can have only one outcome: both the United States and the Soviet Union will find themselves trapped in a costly arms race that can only be counter-productive...
...were a little disappointed last night. Only half a dozen sports writers turned up for the first night of the CRIMSON's competition. Of course George Wallace was a big counter-draw on the Common, but tonight there can be no excuse. A chance to cover one of Harvard's undefeated varsity fall sports. A chance to visit the Boston Garden, all expenses paid. Many chances...
Little in Common. That has not yet happened in Czechoslovakia. Last week Party Boss Dubcek and his colleagues on the Presidium were still putting up resistance to Soviet demands for a list of Czechoslovaks whom the Russians consider "counter-revolutionaries...
...there was Louis Slotin, a morose Canadian with an apparent death wish, who conducted tests of critical assemblies by poking curved segments of uranium or plutonium together with a screwdriver while eying his Geiger counter and neutron monitor. One day in 1946, nudging segments of a Bikini test bomb a little too close, he suddenly saw a blue ionization glow in the room-the sign of a dangerously radioactive reaction. He threw his body over the segments until everyone else in the room could hurry out. Although the others lived, Slotin achieved his death wish. He died in agony nine...