Word: counterattacked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With that, Zanuck launched his counterattack. "Remember," he proclaimed, "I'm a practical picturemaker, not a fool. I have done my duty to my corporation and-yes-to myself." Mankiewicz, he said, was fired because he demanded full control over Cleopatra, a right Zanuck feels must be reserved for himself. Worse, Mankiewicz wasted vast amounts of money-$7,500,000 by Zanuck's reckoning: Richard Burton worked only one of the first 17 weeks he spent in Rome; Roddy McDowall was called to the set only once in four months; sets were built at hurry-up costs, then...
...most of his jaw shot off in Bougainville," and served three terms as Governor of Minnesota. These points are true enough, but irrelevant. All Kennedy said about Freeman as Secretary was that the job had been "challenging." Having made a weak defense, Kennedy followed up with a weak counterattack...
...them from their cellar refuge and finds himself looking down the barrel of a Thompson gun. The blowhard captain arrives, sermonizes plaintively at the figures crouched around the huge, 9-ft. candles, and is told to take his precious behind back to headquarters. He leaves. The Germans counterattack. The men are killed...
Parental Heels. The pressures are most acute in middle-class suburban communities, where the need for keeping up with the Joneses' little girl is most acutely felt. One successful counterattack against the trend is group action. In Charlotte, N.C., for example, some parents have organized a Parents' League to set up "recommendations" for social activities from the sixth grade on. By mutually standing fast, they have been able to fend off that age-old blackmail of the young, "Well, Susie's mother lets her . . ." Sixth-grade parties are all male or all female, and they...
Then Gardes called on Boualem at his huge greystone house in the village of Lamartine, excitedly told him that now was the time to strike a blow for Algerie franqaise by ordering his 2,000-man force to help the Secret Army hold the outposts against French counterattack...