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Word: counterattacks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chapter of modern U.S. military history. In the brawling, Hoyt Vandenberg kept his voice low. In his testimony to a congressional committee, he doggedly stated the simple facts: "The only military threat to the security of the U.S. ... comes from the Soviet Union," and the only force that could counterattack the threat at its source was the Air Force's Strategic Air Command...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Warning Siren | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

...number of legislatures in favor of this amendment has crept alarmingly near the number needed for a convention, lower and middle-income groups have begun a long-delayed counterattack. So far, they have convinced seven states to rescind their resolutions. Massachusetts should become the eighth. The bill to repeal the resolution, now before the Constitutional Law Committee, should be reported favorably and passed. Since no one can accurately predict future expenses, the Government should not limit its future budgets according to pre-War II needs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: XXIII Skidoo | 2/29/1952 | See Source »

...Counterattack? The Post does not minimize the power of Winchell as columnist and Sunday radioracle. And the paper, which has boosted circulation by 35,000 (to 425,000) by the series, expects a counterattack soon, perhaps on Wechsler, an anti-Communist who was once a college Red. Says Jimmy Wechsler: "I hear Winchell's legmen are already working on my WWrongos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Biggest Success Story | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

...attackers were aided by tank columns which ranged up the valleys on both sides of the ridge, blasting the Communist positions on top and on the slopes. The peak was so precariously held by the allies that they were dislodged-for twelve hours-by a Red counterattack in less than company strength. Then the U.N. forces took it again, and began mopping up in the nearby hills to prevent another counterattack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF KOREA: Versatile Whirlybirds | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

...their final defense line behind the Rhine, the defenders regrouped according to plan. Joined by units of the French and British armies, they prepared to launch a counterattack. Observed by SHAPE Commander Eisenhower, fresh from NATO's impressive "Operation Counterthrust" (TIME, Oct. 1) on the northwest German plain, the invaders will be repulsed, as they always are when the script calls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Defense on the Rhine | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

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