Word: counting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Some café owners kept their prices down but cut their meat portions, refused seconds on coffee and turned to à la carte menus. In Atlanta, a restaurant proprietor shook his head: "Every day," said he, "I stand in the lobby of the building where my place is and count the lunches going by in paper bags. There are more of those lunch toters every week...
...general opinion, expressed by the Ames Travel Company, is that students count on being drafted soon, and want to spend as much time as possible with their families...
...lowest-flying pilot could not count the dead, or see the tide of wounded flowing into collecting stations and field hospitals...
Modern technology has undermined heroism, Levin maintained. With the conscription of large-scale armies and the development of the airplane and the bomb, the individual has come to count less and less. Defending Norman Mailer's book, "The Naked and the Dead," which in no sense justified war, Levin asserted that the only real relationship between war and literature has been and should continue to be the truth...
...October 29, the Student Council passed a resolution condenming the new rule but made no specific recommendations for revisions. This was followed by CRIMSON poll a month later, in which undergraduates expressed their disapproval of the two-woman rule by, a count of 1266 to 49, and called for a return to the previous system...