Word: counterattacked
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Just moments earlier, Ara had missed a golden opportunity to give the Harvard men’s soccer team the lead late in the second half against Cornell. His missed shot was followed by a Big Red counterattack that generated a 2-1 lead for Cornell...
...usual poetic flow of attack-counterattack was often disrupted by the elements. Long balls sailed over their intended recipients. Corners flew out of bounds. Passes swerved off target...
Providence mounted an energetic counterattack following Harvard’s goal, and tied up the game at 28:30 when midfielder Ian Wexler headed in a free kick from midfielder Carlos Suero past the hands of sophomore Crimson goalie Jaimie Roth. If Wexler’s animated shirt-removing celebration following his score wasn’t enough to motivate the Crimson, Harvard Coach John Kerr’s halftime talk must have done...
...terrorists had in mind the Afghan rout of the Soviet army, which helped provoke the implosion of the U.S.S.R. The assassination of Afghan commander Ahmed Shah Massoud two days before Sept. 11 was meant to eliminate the Taliban's leading opponent before he could help the anticipated U.S. counterattack. Muslim scholars and clerics around the world were expected to call the faithful to unite in jihad against the impious American army storming the Islamic land of Afghanistan. They had, after all, made a similar appeal in the 1980s after the Soviet invasion...
...operatives have been arrested. And most importantly, the network lost the Afghan sanctuary where it had been able to train tens of thousands of 'jihadis' over the past decade. Still, the men who planned the September 11 attacks can't have doubted that America would launch a ferocious counterattack...