Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russian shortages explained Molotov's relentless insistence, at the Foreign Ministers' Conference, on huge reparations from German current production. But the reparations demands ran counter to the main Soviet goal for 1947-to capture German allegiance. At the conference table Molotov catered to German nationalism by prating of German "unity." But what two Russian generals recently said about German unity in Berlin was far more interesting than Molotov's Moscow rhetoric. During a private meeting with German Communists, Lieut. Generals Makarov and Georgiefi declared...
Farther along Nankwan a black-gowned merchant, Fan Kuang-kua, and his apple-cheeked wife have a counter full of cigarets, wooden combs, runty potatoes, homespun towels and dust-cloths. Yes, says Fan, the Communists had posted many signs and slogans along this very street. Yes, they had been anti-American-they had said Chiang Kai-shek was trying to sell China to the U.S. What does Fan believe? "I understand little of this," Fan says. "I am just lao pai hsing...
...Before the war, my paintings expressed anxiety, but the experiences of war have taught me that what matters in art is to express charm. It I is much easier to terrorize than to charm. ... I live in a very disagreeable world, and my work is meant as a counter-offensive...
World communism, on the Russian plan, would substitute terror for war, asserted Dorothy Thompson in New Lecture Hall last night, as she found any vigorous counter-movement by the United States impossible without "a genuine renascence of Democracy...
After picking up one run on a walk, a hit, and an error in the first, the Freshmen put plenty of men on base, but were unable to score again until they picked up another unearned counter in the seventh. The eighth brought the final outburst, as seven Yardlings crossed the plate...