Word: counterattacking
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...racketeers who controlled the piers, stole an estimated $50 million a year from cargoes, exacted a tribute for every pound loaded or unloaded, and held office in, or operated through, locals of the A.F.L. International Longshoremen's Association. Union Boss Joseph P. Ryan let off a windy counterattack that accused Johnson of being taken in by Communist-line reformers. The Sun printed Ryan's bleats along with Johnson's point-by-point rebuttal and went right on blasting...
...course, was to put Northern Democrats on the spot if they helped defeat the amendment, to stir up a Southern filibuster against the bill if the amendment passed. When Illinois' Douglas tried to head off the maneuver, Republican Minority Leader Kenneth Wherry moved in with a taunting counterattack: "Does the Senator mean that this small and gallant group of liberals is going to vote for the amendment or does he mean it is going to vote against it? Being liberals, of course they would vote to support an amendment which provides that there shall be no discrimination...
Hanging nervously in the background, Administration leaders left the counterattack to the men best able to get away with it-the veterans in the House. Colorado's Democrat John Carroll, veteran of both World Wars, started the fight. Protesting the unprecedented scale of the bill, he moved to kill it outright. In the first showdown, the House voted twice to do so, but on standing and teller votes in which names are not recorded. Slick Parliamentarian Rankin was not to be licked so easily. Immediately, he demanded a roll call...
...Congress passed and the U.S. President signed the Economic Cooperation Act, called by England's Economist "an act without peer in history . . . of inspired and generous diplomacy." What had been promised in the Marshall Plan became solid fact, and the U.S. moved into its massive counterattack against the enemy...
...next four years the cold war would be Harry Truman's war. In all likelihood, Old Soldier George Marshall would not stay on to help him fight it. In his inherited term, Harry Truman, by painful experience, groping and pluck, had evolved a policy of containment and counterattack. In his new term, the man of 1948 would carry the full weight of driving that policy to a decision...