Word: counterattacking
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Sixteen hundred and forty-eight years ago, the Dalmatian stonecutter Marinus arrived on the rocky slopes of Mount Titano, in central Italy, drove out the fat brown bears who inhabited the mountain, and founded the republic now known as San Marino. To lead a counterattack against Marinus, the story goes, the ursine exiles selected a huge black bear, who was actually Satan in disguise. Marinus lured the devil bear to the edge of a precipice and thrust a wooden cross in his face. The evil one went up in sulphurous smoke...
...Brussels, Spaak's fellow Socialists pledged a diehard fight against the King's return. "We shall not pour water into our wine," growled burly Socialist Boss Max Buset. "We are now in the opposition and we will counterattack...
Sweets declared that he was the victim of a radio blacklist initiated by Counterattack, a weekly newsletter offering "facts to combat Communism." Counterattack's managing editor, ex-FBIman Theodore Kirkpatrick, answered Sweets by charging that the blacklist shoe was on the other foot, that he knew of "a number of instances" in which anti-Communist actors could not get radio jobs because the directors and producers were Communists or fellow travelers...
Last week, NBC (which had lost almost all of its comedy line-up to raiding CBS) launched a female counterattack with The Ethel Merman Show (Sun. 9:30 p.m., E.D.T.). The program's tenuous story line has dark, bouncy, 41-year-old Ethel Merman, ably assisted by ex-Juvenile Star Leon Janney, trying to sell a new revue to a somnolent backer-Homer Tubbs, the Syracuse floor-mop king...
...week's end, two powerful voices joined the counterattack. "Teachers are being intimidated," said the national Phi Beta Kappa society, "and students are being led to believe that colleges dare no longer engage in the disinterested pursuit of truth." The society warned local chapters to resist "such emotional pressure." Then Harvard University spoke...