Word: counterattack
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Andover then launched a quick counterattack, caught the Crimson defense playing in midfield, and struck with the first goal of the game...
...yankee counterattack began in 1968, when many important Wall Street brokers began worrying about the effects of the Vietnam War on the nation's economy. Sale makes the generalization that cowboys are more concerned about inflation, which threatens to reduce the level of government funding, than yankees, whose manufactured products depend on the purchasing power of the general public, making them more fearful of a recession...
...next ten minutes of the period belonged entirely to Radcliffe. Swarming into enemy territory, they consistently beat blue shirts to the ball and began to pepper the Tufts' goalie with harsh drives from within the circle. Tufts mounted a brief counterattack, but the half ended with the Crimson holding a slim lead...
...soon as the General Assembly reconvened last week, black African and Arab spokesmen launched a blistering counterattack. Dahomey's Ambassador Tiamiou Adjibade-currently chairman of the U.N.'s African group-blasted Moynihan for "a deliberately provocative act vis-à-vis President Amin and an unfriendly act toward the O.A.U. If Mr. Moynihan wishes to base his strategy in the U.N. on irreverence, flippancy and irresponsibility, let him know right now that the African group will not allow itself to be intimidated...
Historians of the future will probably see this counterattack as one of the major events of the 20th century. In 1961 the first conference of nonaligned nations was held in Belgrade under the sponsorship of Yugoslavia's Tito, Egypt's Nasser and India's Nehru. The 1970s saw a rapid growth in their power and sense of purpose as well as in their tendency to blame the industrialized West for many of the world's problems. The U.N. Conference on the Human Environment, held in Stockholm in 1972, was marred by Third World claims that...