Word: counting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Britain probably can count on enough votes to limit Security Council action, and can always resort to the veto to block total sanctions. But a veto would only put London in serious trouble with its own former African colonies, many of whom have been threatening for months to abandon the Commonwealth over Rhodesia. Even limited sanctions would pose a crisis for the U.N. If they are imposed, South Africa might be forced to resign from the world body...
...While pro-Mao Red Guards continue to flood Peking with "big character" posters denouncing Liu and Teng, some anti-Lin posters have mysteriously begun appearing. One version of the struggle has it that Lin in fact wants all the Red Guards out of Peking except the ones he can count on; he has urged the latter, privately, to stick around. The indisputable fact is that, for all the railings of the Guards against them, both Liu and Teng are still going about their business as visible
...during four years of Depression in the '30s. Since last Decem ber, when tightening money began to choke off housing's flow of mortgage funds, the annual rate of home and apartment starts has dropped more than 50%, to a 20-year low. In the latest count, in October, private-housing starts were scraping along at a mere 848,000 a year. At that pace, the prosperous...
...double-breasted, four buttons--some with epaulets, some with bell bottoms. Both three piece and regular. About thirty shirts, I guess--like, with roll collars or ferociously high collars. Three or four pair of shoes, four or five pair of boots. And, like, I don't think I can count the ties...
...very highly of McCarthy. Before the 1964 election Johnson said: "I served with him in the Senate. He's the kind of man--as we say in the ranch country in Texas--who will go to the well with you. That's a homely way of saying you can count on him in dark days or bright ones...Gene McCarthy is my counselor, my colleague and my friend. I am benefitted by all three...