Word: counterattacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just curling his voice around such tunes as Stay As Sweet As You Are and Shadow Waltz, Cole showed how entertaining a half-hour can be. But it is also serious business. "You know," he says, "if this show is successful, the other networks might even try to counterattack by putting other Negroes on opposite me. That's O.K. with me. Come to think of it, that's good...
...Counterattack. Soon after Hoiles took over, the evening News reversed its longtime policy, began to squawk "socialism" at many programs that had widespread support among business and professional leaders. In quick succession the paper 1) helped defeat a proposal to fluoridate the city water, 2) successfully opposed a municipal parking project to relieve downtown congestion, 3) cold-shouldered a fund drive for the community-backed convalescent home, and 4) denounced the city council's plans to replace a 50-year-old public library. The News's editorials on the library issue finally jolted civic leaders into counterattacking with...
Such a determined counterattack against an influenza epidemic has only lately become possible-or been considered worthwhile. For centuries, while far deadlier pestilences were commonplace, the influence seemed unimportant, usually killed only the aged and already infirm (it was jocularly dubbed the "new acquaintance," "gentle correction" or even "jolly rant"). But as the ancient scourges were being brought under control, influenza occasionally became more lethal. Finally, in 1918-19, it erupted in a global pandemic, one of the worst disease disasters in history, which claimed at least 15 million dead-many of them, unaccountably, young adults in their prime. Still...
Disciplined Troops. Having launched his counterattack in the great Battle of the Budget, the President kept it rolling. So did his disciplined troops. The high-level disunity that had enfeebled the Administration's budget defense suddenly vanished. Items...
Though the counterattack had regained a lot of lost ground, the Battle of the Budget was still undecided-as the House Appropriations Committee made plain by voting a $2.5 billion slash in defense funds. It was still likely that Congress would trim Ike's $3.8 billion foreign-aid program to $3.4 billion or so, and he would have to keep fighting if he wanted to save such embattled programs as federal aid for school construction. But on one point there was no doubt: the President had, at long last, won the initiative...