Word: countered
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Deep in the Middle East desert last week, a burnoosed Arab swung a Geiger counter over a fat steel pipe, tracing the progress of a radioactive swab inside. Behind the swab pushed a brown tide of oil, bound on a 1,068-mile journey from Arabian-American Oil Co.'s vast Saudi Arabian wells to the Mediterranean port of Sidon, in Lebanon. It was the first oil to pass through the $200 million Trans-Arabian pipeline (known as Tapline), the biggest overseas construction project ever financed by private U.S. capital...
...Soviet law is always precarious; the secret police may step in at any time," Berman writes. But where no question of political or "counter-revolutionary" crime is involved, he adds, the Stalin regime has in the past 15 years officially emphasized "stability of laws," based on Soviet concepts of justice...
...John moved on to the produce department, became engrossed in testing the hanging-type scales, decided they ought to be replaced with the counter type. Said he: "The others look better and they're not so apt to go out of whack with all that bouncing around...
...Burger, who had bought an armful of groceries for their lunch, said: "Mr. John, I want to tell you what happened to me at the checkout counter." Mr. John raised his arm defensively. "Margaret," he said, "don't tell me you were shortchanged! I'll cry." She had not been cheated, but a bag of pecans was so poorly marked that the checker had to look up the price. John examined the bag and allowed he would have to jog someone about those markings...
...Wives rob men of the shock-and-counter-shock of life by being over eager to protect them," Wilder said according to "The Post" and the men less exposed to life's cruelties become correspondingly less incisive writers...