Word: counterattacked
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...knew that we could hit Duke on the counterattack, and Brian was well aware of this,” said Harvard coach John Kerr. “Brian had been so dangerous all day that Duke actually had to collapse on the ball as soon as he received...
...different strategy against North Carolina,” Johnson said. “We were planning to counterattack a lot. They played well, and didn’t try to force anything...
During the past few weeks of fighting, the Old Bridge between downtown Monrovia and the industrial Bushrod Island formed the front line. Each push or counterattack started here and, invariably, ended here. But on Aug. 5, when government troops stepped onto the bridge, the rebels were waiting for them - with handshakes and hugs. "They looked at me and said, 'We're happy. We want peace,'" says Timothy Daydee, a 29-year-old government soldier. "I looked back and said, 'Yes, I want peace.'" For the rest of the afternoon, the rebels on one side of the bridge danced and waved...
...Eugenics was enthusiastically adopted by the Nazis to justify their campaign of mass murder against the disabled and the Jews. Tainted by this association, the idea of innate behavior was in full retreat for most of the middle years of the century. In 1958, however, two men began the counterattack on behalf of nature. Noam Chomsky, in his review of a book by the behaviorist B.F. Skinner, argued that it was impossible to learn human language by trial and error alone; human beings must come already equipped with an innate grammatical skill. Harry Harlow did a simple experiment that showed...
...When Bush goes to New York next Fall, Democrats are going to be hard pressed to counter all the patriotic emotions the Republicans will try to tap. But there is an effective counterattack: Memories won?t keep the nation safe or teach its children...