Word: counterblasted
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...patriotism, not their judgment, had been challenged. On a month-to-month basis, this reaction was good politics. But long range, it kept them caught in the Red-issue flypaper. They would not face the ever-mounting evidence, admit their mistakes and thus bury the issue. Mitchell's counterblast at Brownell followed a long-established line...
Belloc held that "all political questions are ultimately theological." In the debate with the rationalists, he became chief Roman Catholic protagonist, wrote political novels as a counterblast to those of H. G. Wells, pamphlets at George Bernard Shaw and the Fabian Socialists. He converted G. K. Chesterton to the Roman Catholic Church, and a critic has described Shaw addressing the formidable Chesterton: "But there dawned a day?a terrible day for you?when Hilaire Belloc loomed into your life. Then indeed you were lost forever. He made you dignify your monstrosities with the name of Faith . . . he turned your pranks...
NATO's champion fire-eater is Marshal Juin of France, commander of its Central European ground forces and one of the Allies' sharpest World War II fighting men. Last week, addressing reserve officers at Strasbourg, this field-soldier son of a policeman offered a chilling counterblast to Europe's growing complacency...
Silence & Counterblast. Yale's official reaction to the Buckley blast was a cold silence. But unofficially, it was ablaze with counterblasts. The Yale Daily News denounced Buckley as a "child of the Middle Ages." Economist John Perry Miller denounced his book as "warped and distorted . . . scurrilous and boorish." Said Philosopher Theodore M. Greene...
...counterblast served only to heighten the tension. The Sandspur editors refused to retract, instead announced that they would put out another issue "in elaboration of the last one." Finally, two days ahead of their scheduled meeting, the majority of the trustees stepped in again...