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Word: counterblast (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whatever the motives, Khrushchev's decision was like a bucket of cold water to the U.S.'s new leaders. For Adlai Stevenson, dedicated to lessening cold war tensions, and long contemptuous of the brusque counterblast as a technique of foreign policy, the week had come as a shock, stimulating the strongest kind of change in a man essentially unschooled in the closeup rough-and-tumble of Communist diplomacy. For the new President of the U.S., Russia's attitude was a rude reminder that although the Kremlin's tactics might change, its strategy most emphatically does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The United Nations: The Bear's Teeth | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

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