Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seven women called PM to say she had been misquoted (she had been asked by a Hearstling to comment on black markets, not on OPA), reporters checked with the other six. PM forthwith reproduced the Journal display, gleefully noted that all seven ladies really liked OPA, ran the natural counter-headline: OPA? YES!!-HOW HEARST LIED SEVEN TIMES...
While Fred Learned restrained a Yankee grin and 1,000 guests hunched forward expectantly, Dr. Evans "vacuumed" him with a Geiger counter similar to the ones which will be used at the Bikini atom bomb test. When placed near his throat, the sensitive device set up a clatter which, amplified for the audience, was clearly audible in the banquet hall...
Medicine, too, said Seaborg, can use the magic pile, both for studying diseases and for curing them. Radioactive iodine, for instance, follows ordinary iodine through the human body. Its rate of accumulation in the thyroid gland (shown by holding a radiation counter near the throat) diagnoses accurately the condition of the gland in goiter and related diseases (see MEDICINE...
...Italy, four old men, from right of center, formed a Democratic Union as a counter to Communist-Socialist cooperation. Three were ex-Premiers: Vittorio Orlando, 85; Francesco Nitti, 77; Ivanoe Bonomi, 72. The fourth was famed Philosopher Benedetto Croce...
Metropolitan newspapermen had a field day Tuesday at the slight expense of the Liberal. Union and an impromptu Dada demonstration. Practically overy dispatch labelled the dadaist's parade as "conservative" or "opposition," evidently mistaking them for members of the Conservative League, whose threatened counter march failed to materialize...