Word: counterattacking
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Emily Montgomery increased Yale's lead to 6-3 early in the second half, but then the 'Cliffe laxwomen began a sustained counterattack...
...regime that owes its existence to Cuba and the Soviet Union. In Moscow, Tass declared that "external forces" were interfering in "the internal struggle in Zaire." Even as the Western powers were afraid that the fighting would topple Mobutu, the Soviets were apparently worried that a strong Zaire counterattack might weaken the shaky government of President Agostin-ho Neto in Angola, which still faces resistance from the UNITA forces of Jonas Savimbi (TIME, Jan. 17). For that matter, Mobutu was also eager to describe the war in East-West terms. After neighboring Zambia complained that a mission hospital near...
...molecular structure serves as a precise signal to the host's immune system for the production of specific antibodies against the invaders. As the immune system begins mustering appropriately shaped antibodies against the trypanosomes, the parasites change their coats and force the immune system to mount a new counterattack. This game of immunological hide-and-seek recurs throughout the course of the disease. The parasites become more and more deeply entrenched in the victim's brain and nervous system, and the patient progressively weakens...
...powerful deterrent to a first-strike Soviet attack. Both cheap and mobile, cruises can be deployed in such massive numbers across the U.S., in planes and at sea that it would be impossible for the Soviets to destroy them all. The surviving cruises would then be able to counterattack the Soviet Union. The number of Russian antiaircraft weapons required to shoot the incoming cruises out of the sky would bust the Kremlin's military budget. No wonder the Pentagon is so fond of the drone...
Rubbed the wrong way. Congressmen began to counterattack. Some pointed out that Sprague's budget request was almost eight times the $1.7 million expended for Nixon's impeachment inquiry and Ford's confirmation hearings put together. Congressman Dale Milford demanded "hard evidence" that the Warren Commission had been wrong in declaring that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone when he shot Kennedy. Just before the House vote last week, a report leaked that the Justice Department had confirmed its finding that James Earl Ray had indeed been acting alone when he shot King...