Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Citizens' pamphleteers worked day and night to counter the anti-busing fervor. They wrote, "the issue [racial imbalance] has been clouded by the false emphasis on busing, which has frightened people into forgetting that the real issue is educational progress of all children." They cited the Kiernan report, the document which led to the Imbalance Law, to prove that segregation was educationally harmful. Mrs. Hicks responded by pledging, in effect, to ignore the law. And one week ago, Mrs. Hicks and her four disciples rode a school bus into office...
Nearer to Second. The May Co. was once a place to pick up a cheap blouse or a cute salesgirl; Comedian Jack Ben ny, in a famous routine, maintained that he found Wife Mary Livingstone behind a May lingerie counter. Inexpensive clothes are still available at May, but nowadays they have some style; May buyers in New York and Paris quickly pass on the latest fashion news. Aware of its customers' growing affluence, May now stocks more expensive soft goods, has broadened its range to include such luxuries as gourmet foods, costly pool tables and antique furniture...
...cash for staples and supplies last summer, and began issuing 1,000-piaster bonds redeemable after the V.C. victory, a U.S. psywar adviser in Camau ordered up 20,000 counterfeit bonds to be dropped in the territory. In Kien Hoa province, a South Vietnamese captain thought up a unique counter to the groups of women and old men that the Viet Cong were sending into town to protest the war. He ordered all local palm readers to advise their clients to avoid large crowds. Protests quickly dwindled...
Harvard's Army R.O.T.C has instituted a voluntary program concerned primarily with the development of skills employed in counter-guerrilla warfare, Captain Frederic L. Shean, assistant professor of Military Science, announced yesterday...
...clear the intention of the church to risk no further charge of antiSemitism. Also taking into account the Jewish suffering under the Nazis, the declaration deplored "hatred persecutions, displays of antiSemitism. directed against Jews at any time and by anyone," and rejected any catechetical teaching or preaching that might counter this view...