Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three decisions in one nationally broadecasted speech was the first indication to date that the American government had finally resolved to take the diplomatic--rather than punitive--route out of the mess in Vietnam. Undoubtedly the President realized that he had insufficient popular backing to continue the counter-productive escalation of the war. Since escalation was required to maintain a military stalemate the President had little strategic alternative but to move toward a diplomatic settlement...
Although some of the seniors involved in staging the speech have called it a "counter-commencement," there has apparently been no conflict between Harvard and the seniors over the King visit...
Matteo Calacocci was seven years old when he stole $7 from the counter of a North End grocery store. That was in 1927. After being judged "incompetent to stand trial," he was sent to the Lyman School, where he was found "not feeble-minded," "not psychotic," and of "average" intelligence. Transferred to Worcester State Hospital in 1930 and to Boston State in 1933, he attempted to escape in 1935 and was transferred to the maximum security facility at Bridgewater. His records show that he was charged with "bad habits" and with "resisting authority...
...would say that in general I am speaking about a tendency within our social sciences and our development-minded people, in conjunction with tendencies within some of the more enlightened of our miltary people. I think it was this conjunction that gave birth to the concept of counter-insurgency as a constructive, both military and economic action that could help transform revolutionary situations in our direction...
Winfield relies heavily on defense, where he takes advantage of the parry-repulse, his specialty. "I'd rather provoke an attack and then look for an opening," he said. "If I were a boxer, I'd probably be a counter-puncher...