Word: countering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were the more creative team out there tonight," Shattuck said, "the more inventive team. We were more dominating territorially and with possessions. As a result, their attack was limited to counter-attacks...
...wouldn't leave without a kiss. So Kimberly, a blonde college-age student with an evah so slight Southern drawl, leaned over the counter of the Tasty Diner in Harvard Square and kissed Karl Stevens, the late night grill cook, smack on the lips. The exchange was great entertainment for tasty patrons at 2:30 a.m. one recent Thursday night, what Karl calls the bar crowd. And the standing room only crowd cheered...
These stalwarts are as diverse as they are different from the college students who swarm around the counter from 12 to 3 a.m. and the laborers who casually sip coffee on swivel stools...
...clock conviviality with mustard, onions and relish," most things are constant and there is always a sense of circular return. Indeed just after most of the men left for their jobs some of the Harvard football players who had been there the previous night sat down at the counter in ties and blazers. They were having breakfast before they left for a road game and this time, in the sedate atmosphere of early morning, Karl didn't make them pay in advance...
...program, there is the symbolic importance in approving such a plan. By furnishing a women's studies concentration, Harvard would send a very strong message that says the University recognizes the legitimacy of women as a bonafide community; not inflating their status, but rather bringing it level. The counter-argument is, of course, that this reasoning only politicizes what is an academic issue. I feel, however, that those who are so adamantly opposed to this proposition are really the ones making a socio-political statement...