Word: counterattack
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...century's turning point, the turning point of the war was D-day. The Normandy landings might have been thrown back if the German command had not been so thoroughly surprised or so unusually slow to counterattack. But once the Allied forces were successfully ashore, Hitler was doomed, caught between armies advancing against him from the west and the Soviet east...
...tried to shut him up, but it was too late. Too late for us too. When I tried to reach our division commander, I found he was in Paris. Hitler's headquarters refused to believe me and decided it was only a dummy raid. We were not permitted to counterattack. I believe to this day that if we had counterattacked by 2 a.m., we could have got to the coast and held the bridges on the Caen canal...
...escalated to a new stage of attack and counterattack at higher and higher frequencies. Men feel insulted. Women detect fresh assaults. The men-are-awful period has been going on for a while. There are signs now that the oh-yeah-well-women-are-pretty-disgusting- too stage is upon us. For men and women, this is mostly a lose-lose combat. But it is entertaining for the crowds in the Colosseum...
...Veep's prospects. But Gore set out to beat the carefully lowered expectations. He spent Saturday alone reading a giant, black briefing book prepared by aides. On Sunday he reviewed videotapes of Perot's recent TV appearances and directed research into Perot's many claims, discussing lines of counterattack with aides. On Monday, a team of nearly a dozen advisers fired questions at Gore for two hours over a chicken dinner at the Naval Observatory residence and then held a mock debate on stools in a foyer. Oklahoma Democrat Mike Synar played Perot and White House Communications Director Mark Gearan...
...speech on the Senate floor, Oregon Republican Bob Packwood declared that the ethics committee investigating him on charges of sexual misconduct should not subpoena his diaries -- because that would raise serious privacy issues and because the diaries contain accounts of the amorous affairs of other members. In a blistering counterattack, the committee declared it needed the diaries to look into possible crimes unrelated to the harassment accusations. A flustered Senate considers whether to seek enforcement of the subpoena this week...