Word: counterblows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...military planners are forced to assume that the U.S. must suffer the first blow in any future war. This is basically a defensive strategy, keyed to what a lover of Westerns would recognize as the "virtue [of] drawing second and killing your man." It rests on a massive atomic counterblow-"one of the most unlimited and inhumane strategies ever devised by man." The ultimate peril of "massive retaliation," says Ways, is that the U.S. will become more and more reluctant to apply it to small incursions, be crowded more and more into a corner where nothing else is left. Ways...
...card game in order to threaten only. If ever it knew that there were Egyptians ready to shed their blood and to meet force by force, it would have given way like a harlot." Nasser is a counterpuncher who has won a number of prelims by meeting blow with counterblow. All things considered, he has come far; the question is, how much farther...
Stevenson was thrown on the defensive by Eisenhower's Korean speech and the General's promise to go to Korea. As the Stevenson campaign train pushed across New York and Massachusetts, worried Stevenson strategists put their heads together to devise a counterblow. The result of their deliberation was a passage added to Stevenson's Boston speech on Communism less than an hour before it was delivered. Said the Democratic candidate : "The root of the Korean problem does not lie in Korea-it lies in Moscow. If the purpose of the general's trip is to settle...
Last week, after repeated protests to the Reds, State did what the Russians wanted: it closed up Amerika. In retaliation, State ordered the Reds to stop U.S. circulation of the Soviet Embassy's U.S.S.R. Information Bulletin and other embassy pamphlets, a meaningless counterblow, since the Reds can print all the propaganda they want to in Manhattan's Daily Worker and other Communist publications. Said the New York Times: "The suspension of Amerika is regrettable because it was the last direct means of giving the Russian people a glimpse of American life and American aims in refutation of Soviet...
Gehrmann obliged the press with a quick counterblow: he runs, he said, to win, and "not to set any spectacular times or to break records ... As for my ... staying back most of the way, I believe the crowd enjoys seeing a sprint finish..." Then Don added pointedly: "Any time Fred wants to jump back into the two miles, where he belongs, that's O.K. with...