Word: countering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mike and lets nature take its course. (A charming sample: two little girls gabbling in their cribs before falling asleep.) More often he plants himself, along with the hidden mike, and gives nature a nudge-heckling an incredibly sweet-tempered piano tuner; negotiating with a girl behind a perfume counter, his pockets full of live limburger...
...were meat prices so high? Last week Joseph Marion Hartkopf, who runs a chainstore meat counter in suburban Woodlawn, Ala., gave his explanation. A married Army veteran with two children, Butcher Hartkopf wrote a letter to the Birmingham News...
Sitting behind a Connecticut lunch-wagon counter and listening to the world's news, Stephen J. Supina decided that what the United Nations needed was a nudge. Supina, who had been a turret gunner in the war, did not write a letter to the papers. Last week he hired a tiny red and yellow Aeronca plane, drew a circle around Lake Success on his map, wrapped 150 feet of wire around his middle and took...
...Born in New York, the third of seven children, Charlie Allen quit school at 15 to become a runner for the New York Stock Exchange, worked as clerk in a Wall Street house. When he was 19, he knew enough to start his own business as an over-the-counter dealer in unlisted securities. When his brothers Herbert, now 40, and Harold, now 37, had served their apprenticeships in the Street they joined him in his growing business...
...them which had been asked last year of a group of Hollywood writers and producers. The question: "Are you or have you ever been a Communist?" The unionists were from the C.I.O.'s Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, which takes in everyone from truck loaders to notions-counter clerks in the country's department stores. The union, with some 150,000 members, is split by a right wing-left wing fight...