Word: countering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...counter jamming is to use so many frequencies that the opponent cannot obliterate them all. The Voice now uses 36 stations and the BBC 25. They change their frequencies suddenly and often, instructing the Russian listeners to "search all short-wave bands." This keeps the jammers on the jump. It takes them about twelve seconds on the average to find and jam a dodging program. In the unjammed interval, an alert Russian listener may sometimes pick up a tidbit of news...
...under his arm, and stalk out of the room in the middle of class. More often, he would turn purple, angrily adjust his eyeshade, or ferociously tap his forehead until his rage was spent. "You should be ribbon clerks!" he would bellow at his students. "Ribbon clerks behind a counter...
...Road. Linz Bros, does not wait for business to step up to its horseshoe-shaped gem counter, but goes out after it with salesmen who range all over Texas. Any Texan who strikes it rich can expect to hear from a Linz salesman about the time he buys his first Cadillac. In their modest little sample cases the salesmen might carry a fortune in jewels. To stay out of the way of thieves, they travel under assumed names, never get too clubby in the club cars, and use a code to communicate with the home office. None has ever been...
Distinction. In Detroit, after the suburb of Highland Park put up boundary signs saying, "You are now entering the city of lower taxes," the city council voted to put up counter-signs: "You are now leaving Detroit, where life is worth living...
These two problems, of course, are vastly complex, and solution to them cannot be reached except by protracted negotiations. Today's Big Four meeting, however, gives both sides the opportunity to start such bargaining. The current atmosphere of charge and counter-charge is hardly auspicious, especially when it appears on official levels--both in this country and in the Soviet Union--but should the Foreign Ministers deal with each other honestly over the conference table, not only Germany and Europe but the entire world would be a safer place in which to live...