Word: counterattacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World War II Konev commanded the north flank of Zhukov's famous counterattack which thrust the Germans back from Moscow in December 1941. Assigned to the Kursk front, he commanded the Second Ukrainian Army, which breached the German defenses and liberated Belgorod and Kharkov. In 1944 he won his greatest victory at Korsun-Shevchenkovsky, where in mud and blizzard his Soviet force encircled and destroyed ten German divisions. From there he went on to force the Dnieper, the Bug and the Dniester, and after liberating North Moldavia, his troops crossed Poland and became the first Russians to reach...
...Republican counterattack is less clearly defined. President Eisenhower, who believes honesty is the best politics, has refused to demand legislation that he knows will not pass (e.g., Truman's civil-rights measures), although by doing so he could easily drive wedges among the Democrats. Accordingly, Republicans may strike at the Democrats' exposed position; they think they can make the Democrats regret in 1956 any failure to deliver the President's program...
...Counterattack Strongman Juan Perón signed into law last week a bill making divorce legal in Argentina for the first time in the nation's history. The next day, the official Vatican newspaper, Osservatore Romano, printed its first denunciation of Perón & Co.'s running feud with the Roman Catholic Church (TIME, Nov. 1 et seq.). In its front-page attack, the paper charged that by arresting priests the Perón regime had violated freedom of religion, and that by legalizing divorce it had subverted "the morals of the faithful...
...coupled with a greatly increased U.S. air-atomic power. Only one thing can give us some sense of security that the Russians will not make atomic war during Phase II: to build an overwhelmingly defended, overwhelmingly powerful U.S. Atomic-Air plainly capable of destroying the Russian state in the counterattack (if the Russians tried to attack...
...attack to date was Satins and Spurs, starring Betty Hutton, the first of a series of $300,000 "spectaculars" (telecast in color). Most critics gave it restrained applause, but after comparing the Trendex ratings of Satins (16.5) and its own Toast of the Town (34.6), CBS confidently launched its counterattack last week...