Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Theresa, who has become an institution at Hazen's since it opened three years ago. Toscano seemed to be "feeling pretty good." He was systematic socking all the glasses and dishes within his reach onto the floor. After politely asking him to leave. Theresa out from behind the counter to apply a little pressure...
...counter-exam on Vietnam, published by members of Students for a Democratic Society, is their most effective written protest to date. The publication, which was distributed to students on their way to Saturday's draft deferment exam, is a shocking, informative, documented presentation of the SDS position on the Vietnamese war, posed in question answer form. Paul Booth, National Secretary of SDS and one of the authors of the exam, said when he was last at Harvard, that SDS's tactics were to hit people in the vitals; by handing out the exam while students waited in line...
...Counter-Bloc. That was true enough. Yet King had himself helped solidify the white vote by stumping the state to rally Negro support for State Attorney General Richmond Flowers, a fairly recent convert to racial moderation, who had gone all out for the Negro vote. As expected, the great majority of Negroes cast their ballots for Flowers. But the specter of a black-bloc vote effectively polarized the whites, whose unexpectedly unified vote sent Lurleen Wallace soaring ahead of Flowers and all eight other opponents. Without the open threat of a monolithic black ballot, white Alabamians' votes...
Silver atoms that are caught in the penetrating beam capture neutrons and briefly become unstable isotopes, emitting gamma rays that can be recorded by the snooper's scintillation counter. Since silver isotopes, like radioactive atoms of other elements, have their own characteristic half life-or rate of decay-and emit gamma rays at a specific energy level, the snooper's detectors can distinguish them from atoms of other elements in the area that have also been made radioactive by the neutron beam...
...find that price too steep, the Survey scientists are already developing a hand-held "baby snooper" that is expected to cost about $3,000. It will shoot low-energy X rays at the ground, causing silver on the surface to fluoresce, and will measure the fluorescence on a scintillation counter. Senftle sees the baby snooper as the silver equivalent of the inexpensive Geiger counter, which leads uranium prospectors directly to their quarry...