Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demonstrators' constitutional rights. And many police efforts are embarrassing failures. Although good intelligence work prevents and solves crime, few police can afford the time to study the widely varying plans and personalities of protest groups. As a result, they often send too few men to shield pickets from counter-pickets, or they go to the other extreme and send so many that they cripple law enforcement elsewhere. Worse, too many police respond too readily to demonstrators' taunts. And when choleric cops blow their tops, the skilled rabble-rouser is delighted, for it is "police brutality" that attracts...
Disorder and rioting broke out in several Jordanian towns, sparked mostly by Jordan's angry Palestinian population, which comprises fully two-thirds of Jordan's 2,000,000 people. Rioters took to the streets, demanding arms for defense and attacking Hussein for refusing to counter aggression with aggression. In Hebron, they burned the car of Hussein's governor and forced the army to throw roadblocks around the town. At Nablus, they potshot at po lice from barricades and upstairs win dows. In the Arab sector of Jerusalem, thousands poured through the streets, ripping down pictures...
Poppy's plot is poppycock. Two U.N narcotics agents (Howard and Marshall) assigned to trace a shipment of radio activated opium from the poppy field of Persia to the junk shops of Harlem whip out their trusty Geiger counter and go lickety-click from Teheran to Geneva to Naples to Nice. En route they run a grim gauntlet of all-too-familiar thriller scenes (bang-bang on the Blue Train, hugger-mugger on the bad guy's yacht, hack-the-stripper in a nudie nightspot) and unpleasantly overripe chestnuts ("How'll we get there-take the midnight...
...electrical potential, or voltage difference, between the electrode-like regions becomes great enough and there is sufficient cloud turbulence, regions begin exchanging streams of charged droplets. When two of these counter-flowing streams-which move as fast as 500 m.p.h.-are within a quarter to half a mile of each other, the droplets act as an electrostatic motor rotor. As they whirl, they whip the surrounding air into the familiar and dreaded funnel...
...substitute for starting with fresh, high-quality meats and vegetables, and says, "Every woman should kiss her butcher." (Actually, Julia's Cambridge butcher, Jack Savenor of United Service Super Market, tends to kiss her first, proudly keeps an autographed copy of her book on the meat-counter shelf so that his other customers can check ingredients.) But, trusting though she is, Julia also insists that women should know their steers. In her zeal to demonstrate the various cuts, she has no hesitation in using her own body along with the meat chart to get the point across...