Word: counterattacked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past Administration had submitted a report (Project Lincoln) which he had not studied in detail. No general conclusions, he said, had been reached on it in the National Security Council, the Cabinet or anywhere else. TIME does not dismiss as "trivial and inconsequential" the problem of defense and counterattack against Russia. But it does not hold that a group of scientists necessarily knows more about air defense than the military, nor does it believe that the U.S. will vanish from the face of the earth in two years unless it adopts Project Lincoln...
Instead of pulling smartly back to the MLR, to save casualties until they were in shape for a successful counterattack, too many of the 7th's units had tried to stand their ground, throwing in cooks and KPs and yelling for reinforcements. The long sitdown had made the Eighth Army sluggish. The battalion and company commanders were not prepared for quick emergency movement of their equipment and command posts. No corps or division command post had been moved for tactical reasons in nearly two years. Sluggishness could be seen in the movement of field pieces up to the front...
...Counterattack Fortnight ago, three solemn representatives of Actors' Equity marched into Jenny's dressing room...
Some observers saw the Bohlen case as the beginning of an all-out fight between McCarthy and Eisenhower. This view was premature, at least. McCarthy was needling, not charging in, and Eisenhower, though supporting Bohlen, had launched no counterattack on McCarthy...
...professional anti-Red magazine Alert (West Coast counterpart of Counterattack) published, a handy list of 522 Hollywood and Los Angeles "cited Reds," drawn, it said, from the committee hearings, and thoughtfully tacked on the names of their accusers...