Word: counterplay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...center of a game of "Can you top this?"-an endless recital of domestic triumphs and defeats. The plumber who forgets his tools is legendary; now, says one pained Washington housewife with murder on her mind, "he just rides around in that white Thunderbird and never even comes." The counterplay comes from the housewife who has discovered a reliable Mr. Fixit, a possession as chic today as the little dressmaker who could copy the latest Paris fashions. Whether villain or hero, the repairman is indispensable; he dominates a vast area of dripping faucets, faulty percolators and a host of unanswered...
diplomatic counterplay. Two weeks ago, India signed a five-year trade agreement-of unspecified amount-with Moscow, pledging to send jute products, tea, coffee, shellac and black pepper to Russia in return for 39 items, such as petroleum, "iron and steel manufactures," and "a wide range of industrial equipment." This agreement could easily be turned into supplying India with Russian military hardware, if the U.S. and Pakistan made a deal. In New Delhi, foreign diplomats suspect that it was Russia that first suggested this possibility to India...