Word: counterattacked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This kind of runaway lingo often leads Historian Allen into exaggerations. Where a few casualties were inflicted on a German combat patrol, Allen recalls that they were "mowed down." A minor attack became a powerful counterattack, prisoners are credited to the wrong division and the negotiated surrender of a distant enemy division is described as if the enemy troops laid down their arms at the mere sight of Patton...
Died. Lieut. General Robert Lee Bullard, 86, World War I commander of the Second U.S. army, whose aggressive tactics at Chateau-Thierry, the second battle of the Marne, and the Argonne earned him the nickname of "CounterAttack Bullard" on Governors Island, N.Y. Alabama born Bullard once shocked fellow Southerners by announcing: "I would rather have been named for General Sherman than for General Lee. Sherman knew how to fight...
Henry Agard Wallace former vice-president of the United States, will lead what he terms his "progressive counterattack" onto Cambridge terrain October 1 when he addresses a Harvard audience under the auspices of the--local chapter of the American Veterans Committee...
...Columbus, U.S. Senator Robert A. Taft† opened his "campaign last week by raking the Truman Administration from prow to poop, blasting its domestic policy and its foreign policy and praising the Republican Congress for crimping the powers of the executive. He exposed himself to the hot fire of counterattack, but that would hardly dismay Ohio's Taft...
...Arnot Robertson, BBC film critic and prestigious woman novelist (Four Frightened People, Three Came Unarmed), took arms against MGM, which had urged BBC to get rid of her because her criticisms were "... harmful to the film industry." Her counterattack: a suit for "reasonable" damages, and a demand for an unqualified apology...