Word: counterattack
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fans, need to overcome the musical and entertainment deficiencies and cheer on the home team. During the closing minutes of regulation of the Penn game, a "Let's go Quakers!" chant resonated throughout the Pavilion for almost a minute until a "Let's go Harvard" counterattack drowned out the screams of the heretics...
KINSHASA, Zaire: An official close to Zaire's Defense Ministry claims that more than 2,500 Ugandan soldiers, backed by tanks, are headed toward the city of Beni in eastern Zaire. According to the official, the Ugandans are trying to join rebel forces as they brace for a counterattack by Zairian army troops massed to the west at Kisangani. Although Zaire's government has frequently complained that Ugandan and Rwandan soldiers are fighting alongside rebels, it now appears that the country's army has recruited some outside help of its own. The unnamed official insists that uniformed men filmed...
...boomer/Xer shtick has now become a reflex common to all ages, from Bob Dole to Macaulay Culkin (who gave I don't think so its big push by uttering it twice in the top box-office hit of 1990, Home Alone). The militia code name for a possible counterattack on the feds? "Project Worst Nightmare." The would-be zinger in the G.O.P.'s last-minute ads warning against Democratic control of both Congress and the White House? "Been there, done that...
...Golan. Because Assad understands well that his forces are inferior to Israel's, no one thinks he would provoke a full-scale war. But that might still be the result, were Israel to respond to a limited land grab, as it has threatened, with a disproportionately severe counterattack. Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai has talked of retaliation that could topple Assad's regime...
...Huskies stormed out of the gate to start the game, earning a penalty corner in the first four minutes. But the Crimson (9-7, 4-1 Ivy) slowly built up its counterattack, so that by the end of the half things were dead even...