Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even with due allowance for exaggeration and minimization, these claims and counter-claims showed that Britain's pride in the Empire troops' exceptionally competent military job seemed pretty small return on a pretty expensive venture...
...melodies from Brazilian jazz to excellent effect. The Prelude and Fugue show a scholarly understanding of Bach worthy of the most erudite academician, yet there is plenty of original vigor; one doesn't feel that this is just another exercise in composition being backed over. Villa-Lobos handles the counter-point perfectly smoothly, and inside this frame-work gives free rein to his own ideas. In the Fugue possibly he confines himself more rigidly to his master--every element, down to the very intervals, is after Bach, so that the highly syncopated rhythm seems a trifle artificial and forced...
...Madam Perkins certified another major dispute to the board, the Administration prayed for better luck. For two months General Motors and the C.I.O. Auto Workers had been negotiating a new contract. Differences narrowed down to union demands for a 10? wage boost and a closed shop; G.M. made a counter-offer of a wage rise, but to a closed shop answered flatly, No. Union leaders finally decided to strike. Last week Madam Perkins tossed this new hot potato over to the board. What the board could do with it was any man's guess. A good sign...
...most effective answer would be the counter-manoeuvre of our own armoured forces. In such a mobile operation between modern 'ships of the desert much might depend on which side could bring into action the more powerful battle tanks...
...country-wide importance, after the fashion of the national debating chamber of the same name. Even taking into account Princeton's conservatism, the absence of pugnacious minority groups there must be explained in part by the atmosphere of free debate. Meanwhile in Cambridge the war of propaganda and counter - propaganda rolls over the Yard leaving broken posters, crumpled pamphlets, hoarse throats, and shreds of torn hair in its wake. No one argues that student organizations should not maintain an independent existence, yet every reason pleads that some place be offered where they can meet in friendly, democratic debate. Democracy cannot...