Search Details

Word: countercheck (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...summit meeting had been torpedoed. Butthere was another countercheck-quarrelsome yet to come-cancellation of Ike's invitation to Moscow. "Conditions have now arisen," said Khrushchev coldly, "which make us unable to welcome the President with the proper warmth which Soviet people display toward fond guests. The Soviet people neither know how to dissemble nor wish to do so. We therefore consider that the U.S. President's visit to the Soviet Union should now be postponed and that the time for such a visit should be agreed upon when conditions are ripe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Confrontation in Paris | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

...week's end, the U.A.W. got another sign that things were going to be tough all over. Ford replied to the union's opening demands for a 30?-an-hour raise with an answer the union could only consider a countercheck quarrelsome-a proposal that Ford workers take a cut instead. Said Ford Vice President John S. Bugas: "We think the American people are tired of negotiations which seem to have no other aim besides gain for all parties except the consumers." Ken Bannon, U.A.W. Ford director, retorted: if the company would exert its influence with industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tough All Over | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

Watchdogs. In his budget message President Roosevelt took pains to protect the Administration against charges of extravagance. Comptroller General McCarl has not had authority to check and countercheck the expenditure of Federal emergency appropriations, nor has Budget Director Douglas had power to plan their spending. The President announced in his message that on that day he was giving to Watchdogs McCarl & Douglas the power to supervise emergency as well as ordinary expenditures. But on protest of PWAdministrator Ickes that the growls of "unsympathetic" Mr. Douglas would impede allocations, the President withdrew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Last Dollar | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

...countercheck quarrelsome is now due from Mr. Bigelow a task fitted to his abilities. As a globe trotter and political writer, he has had experience in both hotels and Russian politics. To reenforce his intellectual attainments. Mr. Bigelow has a burly reputation in the field of sport...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A LITERARY DOG FIGHT | 1/19/1926 | See Source »

| 1 |