Word: counteracting
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...should be ended, Pasztor said he knew of no members who took part in the Moratorium. Pasztor attended a "Back Our Boys" rally at Boston State College on trek, fifteenth. He said that pro-administration demonstrations would take place in Boston in November to counteract the anti-war march on Washington of November...
Paisley will soon be defusing the situation by his absence. He will visit the U.S. next month, presumably to counteract Bernadette. At week's end a two-man Protestant "truth squad" arrived in New York for the same purpose and got off to a flying start by describing Bernadette as "Fidel Castro in a miniskirt." The truth squad was also expected to emphasize Bernadette's lackluster performance as one of Ulster's twelve representatives at Westminster; since her election last April, she has turned up for very few sessions. What is more, Kenneth Lewis, a Tory...
...needs more and more, lots more, "feeble witticisms" to counteract the gloom and despair spread by the gloomy, solemn, woebegone, doleful pessimists who claim to be Americans...
...short, with dark features and squinting eyes. Because English is a second language, he speaks it slowly and dis-tinc-t-ly, a little like Peter Lorre. The overall--mistaken--impression one receives is of a tough, devious, plotting man. Some Mafia mouthpiece maybe, or a loanshark. Perhaps to counteract this, he likes to play the part of the lawyer--wearing grey suits and white shirts, and constantly putting his arm on people's shoulders. When King Collins first met Flym after his arrest--he had talked to him on the phone the day before and Flym had agreed...
...only way to progress toward a solution of the starvation problem is to feed only people who can help themselves. Each time we rush to counteract a famine, kill disease-carrying mosquitoes or build hospitals in a backward country we aggravate their own problem...