Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peace table-stop the bombing. Let our voices ring out across the land to say the American people are not vainglorious conquerors -stop the bombing." Through it all ran the theme that America, "which initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world," is now "an arch counter-revolutionary nation...
Some fear that Costa may try to build too much, or that he will be more concerned with winning friends than winning the battle against inflation. He was no sooner in office than he counter manded a Castello Branco order and rehired-at least temporarily-1,500 surplus social security workers who had just been fired. He also suspended a special 15% profit tax that Castello Branco had put through, held up a fare hike on some government rail lines and hinted that he might even double the country's minimum wage to $148 a month. But the military...
...addition to sporadic heckling, a group of about 200 counter-demonstrators waving American flags buzzed around the protestors all day. They had an answer to "Hey, hey LBJ, How Many Kids Did You Kill Today": "Hey Hey Ho Chi Minh, How Many Kids haveyou done...
...today, but he was an immense character. Seen from close up by Nicolette's appraising eye, he is not as admirable as he appears in his own autobiographical fragment, Chiaroscuro, or as bogus as in Aldous Huxley's satirical portrait of him as "John Bidlake" in Point Counter Point. Nicolette writes well, with a painter's eye for places and faces and a feminine instinct for character. These qualities plus Irish wit lend a novelistic point to her portraits of some great period figures...
...counter man blinks the lights twice. The Bick is closig for an hour. Blitman gets...