Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Misinformation & Fear. Strong emphasis would be placed on education to counter what Johnson called "a cloud of misinformation and unarticulated fear" about the effects of open-housing legislation. The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development would be directed to exhaust every means of conciliation before taking a case to court. Other civil rights proposals, which by themselves would meet with general approval in Congress, would guarantee fair selection of Southern juries, give greater federal protection to civil rights workers, and broaden the authority of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
According to intelligence reports, Soviet Russia is even now beginning to deploy a defense system designed to protect its major cities against attack by intercontinental ballistic missiles. American military men want the U.S. to counter by installing a vast anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system of its own. The Administration hopes to avoid this and is attempting to persuade the Russians to enter an agreement under which neither the U.S. nor the Soviets would deploy ABMs; to that end, U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson is now holding talks with Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin. In London two weeks ago, Kosygin made a press...
...many divergent types work-most of the time-in such close harmony? As one violinist explains: "There is one glorious counter-stress that makes everything worthwhile-the joy of making music." And, it might also be added, with the smug certainty that the fellow up there waving a stick at them is a musical ignoramus as well as an exhibitionist...
DAVID D. LOUD '68, Students for a Democratic Society: Are not the atrocities against the civilian population of Vietnam a necessary consequence of the American aim of counter revolution...
Great patrons like the Medici, the Catholic Church, and the French monarchs, had no counter-part in the Netherlands, and hence almost no monumental works were commissioned. But unlike anywhere else in Europe, the popularity of art among Dutch artisans and merchants supported a large number of artists producing small works in great abundance and variety. Englishman Peter Mundy, visiting Amsterdam in 1640, wrote...