Word: counterattacked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Field Marshal Karl von Rundstedt, generally considered Nazi Germany's ablest military strategist, wished aloud that people would stop referring to the 1944 Ardennes counterattack as the "Rundstedt offensive." It was entirely Hitler's baby, he said...
...counterattack Stalin had two purposes: 1) to play upon every nation's dread of war; and 2) to promote the Soviet hierarchy's current theme song to the Russians: that they must work all the harder to meet the renewed threat of capitalistic encirclement. He said that Churchill had sounded "a call to war with the Soviet Union," and bitterly pointed out that this "firebrand" had "raised the alarm and organized" the 1918-20 Allied invasion of the fledgling Soviet state, "with the aim of turning back the wheel of history." But "history turned out to be stronger...
...department "in the period when we were struggling to build up power." He emphasized the waste inherent in a dual system, e.g., duplicate hospitals, one Army and one Navy, side by side on Espiritu Santo. General Marshall also anticipated one of the main lines of the Navy's counterattack: he urged that Congress should not bother itself with details now, but should lay down the broad principle of a unified military department-the details would work themselves out by evolutionary process...
Privy O.K. The American invasion has been so successful that the most determined British purist cannot even counterattack without unconsciously employing Americanisms. Most Englishmen would be astonished to learn, for instance, that businessman, governmental, graveyard, law-abiding, lengthy, overcoat and telegram are of U.S. origin. And even Noah Webster would be surprised to learn that O.K. ("without question the most successful of all Americanisms, old or new") has recently been approved by the Judicial Committee of His Majesty's Privy Council, which "decided formally that inscribing O.K. upon a legal document 'meant that the details contained...
...chronology of the War in the Pacific, Japan's peak in territorial gains came eight months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941. But even before the attack had reached flood tide, the counterattack had begun...