Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Diego had stopped erupting, a pretty, 21-year-old bank worker named Martha Figueroa poured a little cold water on the lava. Said she: "Every time a girl wearing a rebozo comes into the bank, all the girls behind the counter say how beautiful she looks. But if I wore one the boss would ask me if I thought I was a turista, or was on holiday in Cuernavaca. And it is going to continue that way as long as people are afraid of what people will say and the stylish people think a rebozo is the badge...
...Woodruff Randolph, I.T.U. president, demanded that the I.T.U. be granted jurisdiction over VariType operators. This would make it impossible for the papers to put out a VariType issue if the printers struck. The papers flatly refused. They had no intention of giving up the first method yet found to counter printers' strikes...
...commission contained one pacifist, the Venerable Percy Hartill, Archdeacon of Stoke-on-Trent, who registered his disapproval of any kind of modern war in a minority note. But the report itself gave short shrift to his view: "There are those who say that the solution is to counter aggression by love. Ultimately that may be true. But is it applicable to the problem that confronts us? ... A nation that by disarmament rendered itself defenseless would not be assisting in the prevention of aggression, which is the only way to preserve justice in the world...
...original city plan to seize the land by eminent domain at $1 a year and use it for emergency housing for "a period not to exceed five years," was shelved in February, 1946 when the University presented a counter-proposal to put up permanent buildings and rent them to its own personnel...
Minimizing the possibility of a similar outbreak tomorrow, the Save the Peace Committee holds that an entirely different atmosphere now prevails. No organization has planned a counter-demonstration at its projected "non-political" meeting, the groups spokesmen have declared...