Word: countering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Abner, Fleegle's evil eye is usually thwarted by the overpowering goodness of Mammy Yokum's counter-whammy. But in all its meetings the Security Council has not been able to find an antidote for the Russian basilisk. This week, true to his promise, Gromyko double-vetoed the motion on Czechoslovakia...
...Hirsute Counter...
...office. He promptly made plans to star Jennifer Jones in a Technicolor version of Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and Gregory Peck in a Technicolored Tale of Two Cities. Also on the schedule: Joseph Conrad's An Outcast of the Islands, Aldous Huxley's Point Counter Point, Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain, Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days, and a new unpublished novel, The Third Man, by Graham Greene...
Attacks and Counter Attacks...
There are, of course, conflicting views on "The Iron Curtain." The New York Roxy is now being picketed by the (Wallace) Committee Against War Propaganda. And those pickets, in turn, are being counter-picketed by the Catholic War Veterans. A petition of protest against the film has been signed by 297 leading Protestant clergy over the country, including five bishops. On the opening night, there was a near-riot beneath the Roxy marquee, involving reported 2,000 persons. Mr. Spyros P. Skouras, of 20th Century Fox, said "those who banded together last night to boycott the film are attacking...