Word: counters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...alarmed at the possibility of last-minute "ill-considered concessions," sent a hurry-up call for West Berlin's Socialist Mayor Willy Brandt to appear at Geneva. They need not have worried. The last days were spent in,exchange of poles-apart position papers, in discussing how to counter specious last-minute Soviet offers in deciding whether to recess or to break oo:. After nine tedious weeks, Geneva was ending not with a bang, not with a whimper, but merely in a blur...
Under Continental's plan, a jet passenger arriving at an airport deposits his bags and picks up a check at the ticket counter, then goes directly to the flight gate. If he has a reservation, he boards the plane immediately; if not, an attendant checks whether space is available, passes the passenger through. Only when the aircraft is aloft does the passenger pay an agent for his ticket and any excess baggage. Passengers still need reservations to be absolutely certain of a seat, but the airlines expect plenty of extra seats to be available once the big-load jets...
...plan assumes that the U.S. will suffer the first blow in any major nuclear war. It counts on the expectation that the nation will not only survive the first onslaught but will have the military strength to launch a massive counter-strike and the morale to get the nation back on its feet. Yet, despite the urgent recommendations of the Gaither report, the Rockefeller defense report (TIME, Jan. 13, 1958) and most civil-defense experts, not a single city or state in the nation has a realistic nuclear-bomb shelter system-a system that on a national scale could save...
...Pinar del Rio, the secretary of the Association of Rustic Estate Owners said that he had gone to a radio station to make an anti-reform broadcast, but had been stopped by a crowd of 60 men wielding clubs. A decree announced last week established the death penalty for counter-revolutionary activity, including armed plots, invasions, sabotage or dropping leaflets...
...Netty, a French brassière, is displayed by a curvy salesgirl busily selling ties to two gallant Gallic gentlemen. Ever so often, as the salesgirl writhes closer to the counter, she dissolves like a nervous ghost, leaving only a suddenly unoccupied bra for her customers to gape...