Word: counter-attack
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Even while the teams prepare for the second half in their locker rooms, the Harvard-Yale rivalry continues on the field in a battle between the two schools' marching bands. This year, the half-time presentations comprise less attack and counter-attack than in several recent years. The Yale band presents a bawdy description of the current national state of affairs, while Harvard's program claims as alumni a variety of historical figures ranging from Moses to Shakespeare, in a routine perceived more as humorous jest than pretension, at least by those from Harvard and Yale. Still, both bands find...
...expenses-paid six-week vacation on the Mediterannean, a good number must have been seriously interested in Spain's military importance. At the time, Spain was the only European country in which the allies could set up bases impervious to Soviet air attack and could launch a counter-attack to a "red advance" on the continent...
...even mentioning Congressional authorization. American policy since January has bolstered Thieu so that he has no incentive to seek a compromise. And Thieu's military attacks and stopped-up policy actions, even in areas damaged by the recent floods, have left the Provisional Revolutionary Government little choice but to counter-attack...
...push us into alarm stage three--no food or water, which meant death under ten days unless they stuck some kind of tubes in us. But even if they put us on some crazy kind of nourishing machine, which we fondly dubbed the Robotron in our plans for counter-attack, we decided to stay on the tubes until our sentences ran out and we were carried across the border like dehydrated prunes. If one of us got back to the West first, we agreed that he would tell the East Secret Police the code words "Black Beauty" since that would...
...grasped this lesson as quickly as the Cuban people. The forces of U.S. imperialism which had supported Baustia, which had controlled the Cuban economy for a hundred years, prepared the counter-attack: economic blockade, political pressure, massive propaganda, and finally in the beginning of April 1961. Cuban cities were bombed by U.S. planes supplied to the counter revolutionaries...