Word: counteract
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...devices are not 100% foolproof. Enemy troops often foil the people sniffers by hanging buckets of urine in the trees. Even the "wild weasels," which were designed to counteract Soviet-built SAMs, occasionally run amuck. During the Haiphong raid, an anti-radar missile that was intended to strike a Communist antenna accidentally homed in on the guided missile frigate Warden. The ship was so heavily damaged that it had to be towed to the Philippines for repairs...
...notes, unaware that their voices were being picked up by a live mike. "I got the farts again, Charlie," Young was heard to say. "I think it's acid in the stomach." He blamed it on the large doses of potassium-spiked orange juice prescribed by doctors to counteract the effects of weightlessness (see MEDICINE). The strange potion did not seem to bother him on the second moon walk, when the astronauts took more core samples, picked up rocks, and pushed over a large boulder to collect soil from underneath it (so scientists can compare the effects of cosmic...
...tried to send a letter home to parents explaining, as 16-year-old Swanola James puts it, that "we all aren't worked up." (The principal, she says, quashed the letter for fear of offending N.A.G. parents.) Parent volunteers have been working in the Pontiac schools and trying to counteract the N.A.G. with a slogan that has cropped up this year on bumper stickers in both North and South: LET'S MAKE IT WORK...
...stage production must do more than merely present us with symbols. Director Emily Mann's idea to counteract the static nature of the play is to have dancers above and beside the stage mime some of the crucial events the characters are describing, particularly Sebastian's death. This kind of device is dangerous, but here it works, because the director has sense enough to use it sparingly, and never lets it get in the way of what's happening on stage...
Among his notable achievements was his coverage of the Arkansas school integration fight in 1957, when the National Guard was ordered in to counteract Governor Orval Faubus' refusal to mix the classrooms. He impressed other newsmen with his solid judgment, laying it on the line about Faubus without being offensive. It was also an assignment that caught the eye of NBC network bosses in New York...