Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cambridge police have uttered the warning that unauthorized bonfires and property destruction "will be considered a definite breach of the law," and will put an end to plans for a Yale rally in November. Both the fire and police departments will counter a general ravaging of the city tonight with refusal of permits for further demonstration...
...excellent opening scenes, tight-packed with sharply observed detail, are models of celluloid suspense. Police Detective Thomas Mitchell coldly interviews the victim's neighbors until he tracks down Suspect Olivia de Havilland, hard at work behind her cigar counter. To the detective's consternation, Miss de Havilland has an identical twin. One of the girls was too near the scene of the crime. But the police cannot get a murder indictment without knowing for certain which girl has the unbreakable alibi. The twins themselves aren't talking...
Amid the titanic weariness of delegates, the 21-nation Paris Peace Conference headed into its final week. In a slogging windup of committee work (before sending treaty texts to plenary sessions), Paris diplomats had argued and counter-drafted till sunrise, two nights in a row. On the third night, grappling with the economic clauses of the Balkan treaties, they reeled off 17 hours of continuous session-broken only by a ten-minute recess at 4 a.m. to permit delegates to get bracers before the bar closed. At the finish, U.S. Economist Willard Thorp slumped down Luxembourg's red-carpeted...
...came to pass that into the Coop yesterday came a student clutching a white VA authorization in one grimy hand and the rent in his pants in the other. Past the stationery counter, past the book department he strode before he found what he had come...
...Warned that a Turkish military agreement with nonBlack Sea powers (i.e., the U.S. and Britain) would run "directly counter" to Russia's interests...