Word: counterattack
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Headline-hunting Louis Johnson should have known he was flying into trouble. When he refused to provide an Air Force plane for a bit of round-the-world congressional junketing (TIME, Sept. 12), Oklahoma's Senator Elmer Thomas whirled in bristling counterattack. He demanded that Defense Secretary Johnson furnish him detailed information on all recent trips made by Administration officials in military aircraft. Then he left town for the weekend...
Sixteen hundred and forty-eight years ago, the Dalmatian stonecutter Marinus arrived on the rocky slopes of Mount Titano, in central Italy, drove out the fat brown bears who inhabited the mountain, and founded the republic now known as San Marino. To lead a counterattack against Marinus, the story goes, the ursine exiles selected a huge black bear, who was actually Satan in disguise. Marinus lured the devil bear to the edge of a precipice and thrust a wooden cross in his face. The evil one went up in sulphurous smoke...
...Brussels, Spaak's fellow Socialists pledged a diehard fight against the King's return. "We shall not pour water into our wine," growled burly Socialist Boss Max Buset. "We are now in the opposition and we will counterattack...
Sweets declared that he was the victim of a radio blacklist initiated by Counterattack, a weekly newsletter offering "facts to combat Communism." Counterattack's managing editor, ex-FBIman Theodore Kirkpatrick, answered Sweets by charging that the blacklist shoe was on the other foot, that he knew of "a number of instances" in which anti-Communist actors could not get radio jobs because the directors and producers were Communists or fellow travelers...
...different. The Communist Party is not a political party in the strict sense of the word - it's simply a fifth column for the Soviet Union." Earlier this year, Sweets resigned as president of the Radio & Television Directors' Guild rather than sign an anti-Communist affidavit. And Counterattack reeled off a list of Communist-front organizations which he had supported. Said Sweets, in a typical party-liner's defense: "It is not loyalty to the U.S. that is really in question. It is, rather, loyalty to reaction-loyalty, I am convinced in my case, to the ideas...