Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trouble chez Renault. The crisis started when 2,500 workers at the nationalized Renault automobile plant struck for a ten-franc-an-hour raise. Their demands ran counter to the Government's hold-the-line policy (TIME, March 3), which the Communist Party (and its five Cabinet ministers) had approved. To deal with the situation, beetle-browed Benoit Frachon, Communist Co-Secretary General of France's General Federation of Labor, called in Eugene Henaff, a tough Communist disciplinarian (whose chief claim to distinction is that he has worn a red tie every day for the past eleven years...
Climaxing several days of caucuses and counter-caucuses, the election meeting was expected to produce a sharp functional fight but a wave of withdrawals and declinations left only one nominee apiece for nine of the 15 positions on the executive group...
...came-Vassar and Yale sent three apiece, and Wellesley supplied a small brunette and a big blonde-that the conference had to be moved from the New Republic's library to the subscription counter one flight up. Haggard-looking Wallace, in red diamond-patterned necktie and blue suite, leaned up against the counter, perspiring freely, and answered questions for the better part of an hour...
...Myles Huntington and Johnny Goldsmith, and an error by the pitcher brought in seven scores in the second. This ended the scoring only until the third, as the Freshmen combined three walks, an infield error, and a hit batsman with two singles, and a double by Goldsmith to counter five more times...
What to look for is uranium's radioactivity. The best loker is the portable Geiger counter, which finds uranium under the ground as a hog smells out truffles. The prospector carries it over the hills, poking into crevices. In his earphones he hears a few clicks stirred up by cosmic rays and normal earth radioactivity. If the clicks come faster, his heart generally beats faster too. If they swell to a roar, he may be near a uranium bonanza...