Word: countering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those who oppose the adoption of any system that would force the clubs to encompass the entire upper class student body, can counter with many proofs that the present system is fine and cannot be changed because of over-crowding and should not be changed because it violates the clubs' prerogatives to choose whom they like...
...claims that Whouley, proprietor of Hazen's, asked him about his work experience in general. Chi says he replied that he had worked in the Lowell House Dining Hall in 1948-49. Whouley maintains he asked Chi if he had any counter experience and that Chi replied...
After a 30-yard broken-field run by Brooks Wilder in the final quarter, Bob Woodruff passed to Mike Post for Lowcll's clinching counter...
...skilled a congressional vote counter as Harry Truman knew that Olds had no chance. But since Olds had the undying opposition of the power lobby, the President was able to make a fine grandstand play against "the special interests." No one knew better than Harry Truman that an abrupt order to vote for Olds as a matter of party loyalty was no way to put Olds over. It only stimulated the opposition...
...night Turkish police watch the massive, drafty Soviet embassy in Ankara and the consulate general in Istanbul. Russian cars are trailed relentlessly. (Sometimes four or five Russians will dash out, separate, pile into different automobiles before the one or two Turkish police can figure out which car to follow.) Counter-espionage is big business here. From the time any foreigner, from private citizen to ambassador, enters the country, his movements are known. A vast army of full-time and part-time informers keeps Turkish intelligence posted on who goes where, who meets whom, who said what. Turkey's jittery...