Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fifty-five-year-old Author Boyd (Drums, Roll River, Bitter Creek, etc.) died last Feb. 25, of a heart attack, at Princeton, N.J., where he was pursuing his war work. The Free Company (TIME, Feb. 24, 1941), which he founded, strove to counter the enemy's propaganda...
...word into a serious study of miscegenation (TIME, April 10). For his $2.75, Benny DeVoto got a copy of the book and some strange fruit of his own seeking: a court summons for trafficking in "obscene" literature. Thus last week DeVoto, out to expose Boston's behind-the-counter prudery, forced a test case on the ban. As an unscheduled fillip to these negotiations, a copy of John Wilder May's Law of Crimes (438 pp.) tumbled off the bookseller's shelf, crowned one of the cops...
...plushy furnishings of the big room at 10 Downing Street muffled the echoes of Churchill's rumbling barrages, Eden's cool returns. The point: Would Eden change his mind, stay on as Foreign Secretary? The counter: Would the Foreign Office continue to be directed from above on major policy...
Kawabe's Counter. With an estimated three to six divisions operating in four columns, Lieut. General Masakazu Kawabe two weeks ago descended on Imphal...
...City Bar's wide wooden counter, MacKenzie County farmers, their jeans heavy with cash, drank up 40 cases of beer a day. At Christensen's hardware store they stripped the shelves nearly bare. They played poker, guzzled, loafed, had Doc Winter put gold in their teeth...