Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with which to counter the militants. All at once, Northern liberals discovered that integration could mean demonstrations in front of their schools, protest marches on their main streets. All at once, Negroes were not just a faceless social cause, but a community of individuals, some of whom could be as intractable, nasty, destructive-and racist-as some whites had been all along. And through these discoveries ran the nagging realization that the more the Negroes got, the more they demanded. That this is a universal human trait was beside the point...
Although two or three members wished to enlist the aid of Harvard Students for a Democratic Society, it was agreed that the committee had to make its demands more definite before asking student aid, that involving SDS might be counter-productive, and that the committee should make no formal alliances with any other group...
...state gun mail-order house. Even within his own state, the buyer who orders a gun by mail will have to wait at least one week before the dealer ships the weapon. Similarly, when the gun buyer goes to an adjoining state to purchase a gun over the counter, he must wait a week before it will be handed...
Summons to Moscow. Most impatient of all, it seemed, was Communist Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev. Last week Brezhnev ordered Dubček to report to Moscow with his personal list of Czechoslovak "counter-revolutionaries"-for comparison with Brezhnev's own. Under pressure from Brezhnev and his Kremlin colleagues, Dubček accepted the resignation of Foreign Minister Jiři Hájek, who defiantly demanded withdrawal of Russian troops before the U.N. Security Council last month. He was the third reformer of ministerial rank to be sacked (Deputy Premier Ota Sik and Interior Minister Josef Pavel preceded...
...Impatiently and arrogantly, he cut off the others in midsentence. Moreover, claimed the sources, as soon as word reached Moscow that President Johnson had left Washington's crisis atmosphere for his Texas ranch, Brezhnev and the other Russians felt assured that there would be no U.S. move to counter their invasion. Accordingly, they hardened their attitude toward the captive Czechoslovak leaders...