Word: counterattacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harry Truman waited 48 hours to counterattack. His platform was a dinner for 1,200 delegates to a civil-defense conference at Washington's Hotel Statler. Unlike General MacArthur, he had the microphones and cameras of the nation's major radio & television networks before...
...water-borne attack did not wait for the mechanics to arrive. One company cast off in plywood boats, paddled by hand. Some of the boats were smashed by mortar fire. Finally the Chinese launched a full-scale counterattack. The Americans threw it back, then withdrew. By that time the battle for the dam had become academic. The Chinese had already wasted much of the reservoir water; if they had been able to blow the dam (they may have lacked know-how or explosives), they would almost certainly have done so earlier...
...Counterattack. Orville wisecracked when the recall leaders delivered their petitions to city hall-in an armored car. But early this month Orvie got his 225 Ibs. up on the stump and began to counterattack in earnest. He lit into the Ford family as though the Fords had been poisoning the drinking water; he swiped simultaneously at both the late Henry Ford and Negroes...
...Chinese followed up their central-front counterattack this week with power and determination, they might force a temporary U.N. withdrawal. But if and when their assault was contained, they would find themselves worse off than before...
Spearheading the network counterattack, Dr. Kenneth H. Baker, research director of the National Association of Broadcasters, bluntly charged that educational TV would probably be even duller than the commercial variety, because 1) educators do not understand the sight-&-sound medium, nor are they willing to use it when they do; 2) their experiments with radio have so far been a "dismal failure"; and 3) as a group, educators have proved too incompetent to justify their using any part of the broadcast spectrum...