Word: counterattacking
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...aggressive action had been shown by any members of the little procession and no kind of counterattack was made...
...first Doherty counterattack was a heavy barrage of telegrams. Whipped to fury by having his stock suspended he turned from the central issue of gas rates to assail the Kansas City Star, which he pictured as a wicked newspaper dictating to a puppet Governor, hurting the welfare of 1,000,000 Cities Service securities-owners by its action. Strength was added to his punches by the fact that in Kansas alone are several thousand Cities Service investors. Big shells in the first telegraphic attack included...
Other books: The Heart's Journey, The Old Huntsman, Counterattack, Satirical Poems...
...Wiley's most brilliant counterattack against the manufacturers was the formation of his "Poison Squad," twelve young men from his staff who at his command ate only adulterated foods. Their sufferings he reported with dramatic detail. The "Poison Squad" won him general public support. As a result unscrupulous manufacturers must be skillfully stealthy to put into their products boric acid, borax, salicylic acid, salicylates, sulphurous acid, sulphites, benzoic acid, benzoates (except traces), formaldehyde, copper sulphate, saltpeter...
...felt certain the end of the War was near. The only report I ever read on that flight was the one referred to in the London Daily Mail, about a half-dozen lines regarding the flight of 310 planes over the enemy lines to offset a counterattack and drop food supplies -as near as I recall it. Reports among the troops were to the effect that they had gone to rescue the "Lost Battalion" and most general and probably the most correct was the report that they delivered some supplies where they were badly needed; directed brief but effective resistance...