Word: counterblast
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...talking as if the U.S. and not the British-French were responsible for the Suez catastrophe when the U.S. had striven desperately to prevent it, even Mike Mansfield left himself open to the counterblast of Wisconsin's Alex Wiley that the patently anti-Dulles nature of the stalling on the crisis was "blatant, befuddled badgering," and that the U.S. people would so judge...
...Power (Sun. 6:30 p.m., CBS). Counterblast, the story of England's blitz, narrated by Walter Cronkite...
...deceitful means," a Communist who had a hand in preparing that document might be expected to stay quiet. Not so Vittorio Vidali, Communist boss of Trieste. No sooner had Vidali read Comrade Khrushchev's fulsome apology to ex-Comrade Tito last week than he was ready with a counterblast that denied it all. "Our surprise at that statement," wrote Vidali, "has been enormous. Our party has been shaken ... in the same way that the bora [a cold wind from Yugoslavia] shakes our trees...
...deep psychological unease: his right to speak for Asia was in question. "Meetings between the Prime Ministers of India and China are world events," he had proclaimed grandly in Calcutta. He cherished the belief that he could negotiate an Asian "area of peace," guaranteed by Red China, in counterblast to the "trivial" Manila Defense Pact. But Nehru's area of peace, it seemed, was already coming unstuck: neighboring Nepal complained about Red China's infiltration of its northern Himalayas; Burma, worried by Communist guerrillas in its own country, wanted tangible reassurance of Chinese good intentions; even Indonesia, staunchest...
...time for the afternoon editions, McCarthy and Cohn fired a counterblast: the Army had tried to "blackmail" the committee into calling off its investigation of Communists, the Army had tried to use Private Schine as "a hostage," and Secretary of the Army Robert T. Stevens had urged the committee to leave the Army alone and "go after the Navy, Air Force and Defense Department" instead...