Word: counterattacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nixon promptly threw away his prepared speech notes and set to work anew, aware that the telephone call had signaled a turning point in the campaign: Ike is through turning the Republican other cheek to Democratic attacks. As Nixon knew, the brunt of carrying the counterattack would fall upon him and G.O.P. National Chairman Leonard Hall, for Ike had no intention of lending the presidency to campaign potshotting...
...Counterattack. Once they stopped to catch their breath, Muncey and Rhodes mounted a counterattack. Miss Pepsi...
...Langlie had come to San Francisco not so much for the fun of a counterattack as for a positive statement of achievements. Quickly he ticked off major areas in which the Administration had kept its promises...
...Kittery, Me. Before the dust had cleared from the Pearl Harbor debris, President Roosevelt summoned bleak, bottle-bald Ernie King from the Navy's second ocean-where he had directed the Atlantic's undeclared war of 1941-to lay down a massive plan of defense and counterattack in the blazing Pacific. ("When they get into trouble," barked King, "they always send for the sons of bitches.") By 1944 he was boss of almost a dozen fleets-the mightiest naval force the world has ever seen-and by war's end it was clear that no other service...
...otherwise excellent supervisor who spoils his performance by a bullying lack of tact with subordinates. Since his behavior is adolescent, the prescription was to treat him as an adolescent, with firmness and support, and allow him to let off steam against his own superior with no fear of counterattack...