Word: counterattacking
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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...
...asked which were the best line divisions in the Eighth Army. Without hesitation, he answered: the U.S. 1st Marine Division and the British 1st Commonwealth Division. In a valley north of Seoul during the dark days of December 1950, a British lieutenant colonel had just ordered a necessary counterattack during a withdrawal action. The officer (who was killed a few months later) was holding a mess tin with some scraps of food in it, and weeping as he watched his men fall. He turned to a U.S. correspondent beside him. "You'll forgive me for saying...
...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...