Word: countering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Into the shopping district of Rapid City ventured Mrs. Coolidge & John Coolidge. At the butcher's, the baker's, the gift shop, they dallied; then they entered a jeweler's store. Mrs. Coolidge, peering through the glass counter at a darkly sparkling jumble of bracelets, brooches, silver chains, earrings and intricate pendants, spied a shiny ring, forged from the golden dust of the Black Hills. She turned to John Coolidge, said: "How would you like to have one of these?" John Coolidge was reported to have said: "I don't wear rings, thank...
...agreement concerning the so-called bandit raids, which have frequently developed into semipolitical feuds, greatly advantages Russia. Through it the Russians will be able to cross the frontier, probably only to a limited extent, to check any counter-revolutionary movement that may be formed there; for it is believed in Moscow that the British are attempting to foster trouble in Persia against the Caucasus and Turkestan...
...another. In the first, one can keep his hair slick between rounds and be reasonably sure that the fight will end as the managers agreed. But in the trenches, where a man's head may be blown off without contract, haircombs are counted superficial. Besides, there is no counter jab against a 16-inch shell. So the hero, once a cocky pugilist of the alleyways, turns yellow. But later he braces up, rushes a machine-gun nest, falls, comes to in the arms of his Red Cross nurse sweetheart. A delicate operation has been performed upon his shattered...
...Newark, N. J., Mae C. Collins, 307 pounds, waddled into a butcher shop. On the walls hung red, juicy, uncooked animals. Under the glass counter reposed cool, damp, bulging joints of beef. On the counter, in the icebox, lay bloody fowl; flaccid livers; grisly, delicious knuckles; dainty, pink and white lamb chops. The gullet of Mae C. Collins gaped a little. Her small, pleasant, piggy eyes, twinkling behind rolls of fat as round and red as hamburgers, finally fixed on a ponderous porterhouse steak. Seizing it, she waddled out of the butcher shop...
This was, of course, an allusion to the formal charges of the Soviet Government last fortnight that Britain means to launch war upon the Soviets and maintains "spies and assassins" throughout Soviet territory. Against this so-called "British terror" the Soviet continued its adroitly named "counter terror." A score of alleged "British spies" were reported sentenced to death in Russia last week, notably one "Commander Klepikov of a ship in the Baltic fleet, who sold information to the British...