Word: counterassault
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...Counterassault. "What they do is, they let you love it," Cassavetes says. "They let you love what you're doing. Then they take it all away from you." Not so with Faces, which was made over a four-year period of financial uncertainty but with complete freedom. The result was a fiercely personal, dynamic film that unashamedly celebrated its own independence...
...taken was found sown with Red mines). After 40 minutes, the Communists withdrew, carrying off enough weapons to arm one of their battalions, plus four captured American advisers.* Because it took Saigon's new revolutionary regime more than a day to supply enough troops for a helicopter-borne counterassault, most of the Reds escaped. Some government troops had been tied down in fighting elsewhere, but a U.S. officer said bitterly: "It was Sunday. And this isn't a seven-day war except for the Viet Cong...
...least the southern half of the Indian Ocean and its approaches from the South Atlantic (see map); 2) to base a counteroffensive against the Indies, Malaya and Japan itself. The first reason is compelling. But the real value of southern Australia's distant ports and cities for counterassault is open to argument...
...rain. Stretched in a semicircle about Yorktown, American troops under General Washington lay in their earthworks, some putting back into service the guns of two redoubts that had been captured and spiked by a British assault under Lieutenant Colonel Abercrombie in the forenoon but recovered later in a counterassault. About 300 yards away lay the British, in the inner circle of Yorktown's earthwork defenses. In the town, Lord Charles Cornwallis took counsel with his officers. North of them, the York River hissed and splashed as the whistling wind and driving rain whipped its surface. It was apparent...