Word: counterattacks
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...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...
...battle pounded on last week, De Lattre flew into the French outpost of Vinhyen (see map) after it was cut off from Hanoi by the Communists. He wanted to see the battle for Hill 101 himself. He watched two French columns go into a counterattack. Fighting for him, on one flank, there was a detachment of Muongs, hill people from the "Country of the Killing Water," where they hunt pigs with bows & arrows. Now, armed with rifles, they were stalking a Red column. As they edged forward under Communist machine-gun fire, clouds of smoke and dust rose ahead...