Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Christiana is the highest-priced stock on the market. It was quoted last week, over the counter, at $3,005 bid, $3,055 asked. Even at that price, it seemed to be a bargain. By buying a share of Christiana, an investor would indirectly own 19½ shares of Du Pont stock, almost three shares more than if he had spent the same amount of cash to buy Du Pont stock...
They stared shrewdly around a Richmond department store while crowds, which had followed them in, stared curiously back. They were offered a free shirt apiece, unerringly picked the most expensive ones in the showcase. At the camera counter they announced, this time a little apologetically, that they thought the Germans made better photographic equipment than the Americans. Pirogov was openly enthusiastic at the sight of pretty models parading past in expensive dresses, but Barsov was doubtful...
...nylon mesh hung between side boards curved to fit the pilot's body. The mesh can be loosened to make room for broad hips, and a rounded belly (which are among the occupational hazards of airmen). The pilot's jaw rests on a padded adjustable shelf. A counter-weighted forehead strap takes the strain off his neck. He steers the plane by resting his forearms in movable "pans" with hand grips for stick, throttle, etc., at their forward ends. His feet work the rudder, brakes, or both...
...guests, denounced him as lazy and useless. This meant a terrible loss of face for young Mao. He ran out of the house, his father in hot pursuit. Young Mao reached the edge of a pond and threatened to jump in if his father came any nearer. "Demands and counter-demands were presented for cessation of the civil war," Mao recalled. "My father insisted that I apologize and kowtow . . . I agreed to give a one-knee kowtow if he would promise not to beat me. Thus the war ended, and from it I learned that when I defended my rights...
...possibility that the Russians may be seriously interested in casing the present tension, then they should be given a chance to do so. And certainly such a glimmer exists, at the very least. So let us find out just what Stalin has in mind. Let us launch a peace counter-offensive, and perhaps everybody can live happily ever after in a world torn by peace...