Word: counterattacked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hugging the ground, we crawled back up into the kunai grass on our hill and started returning the fire. Seizing the opportunity for a bluff, Stafford yelled out 'Here come Gurkhas! Here comes the army!' His men took up the cry and moved forward in a counterattack, blasting with carbines and Tommy guns. The Communists vanished back into the hills. Five of the six handcuffed women, caught in the murderous crossfire, lay crumpled on the ground...
...more enviable than the West's. They were simply beating against the West's weakest salient to win either its surrender-or the even bigger prize of a new conference, with Ruhr coal on the table. What could the U.S. do about it? Washington's diplomatic counterattack-which must strive not merely for present Russian withdrawal but for guarantees against future assaults-could start with a formal protest to Moscow (which was being readied this week). The next possible steps: U.N. discussion; economic sanctions, including the closing of the Suez and Panama canals to Soviet ships...
...debate, Spaak went to Parliament serenely ready to counterattack. When newspapermen asked him whether he intended to resign, he grinned: "The dead man is still standing up." To the deputies he cried: "Things have changed . . . Today we can shake hands with a Catholic without assuming him to be a supporter of the Inquisition or of Saint Bartholomew's massacre...
...spare time Ed Queeny likes to hunt and fish and write books. He has written on ducks and salmon fishing and, most important, on the free-enterprise system that he feels Monsanto epitomizes. His Spirit of Enterprise (Scribner; $2) was a vigorous, readable businessman's counterattack on state planning...
...city except the dock area, Jewish soldiers began to filter into the town. Others gathered on the slopes of Mount Carmel. One morning at i a.m. they struck. Behind a creeping mortar barrage, the Jews moved into the Arab quarters of the city. Bewildered Arabs gathered for one brief counterattack, then collapsed in leaderless confusion. Within a day, the Jews had taken Haifa...