Word: countereffort
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Dried-Up Source. The Administration's massive attack brought a countereffort by U.S. Steel. But it was too late, and too little. Kennedy had already corralled public opinion; even among businessmen, there was an overwhelming sense that U.S. Steel, in its timing and its tactlessness, had been fantastically stupid in its public relations...
...bulging flanks, nations began chattering nervously of nonaggression pacts. Such harmless-sounding pacts, industriously promoted by Chou Enlai, were, in fact, designed to exclude U.S. power from Southeast Asia, leaving non-Communist nations at the mercy of Red China's burgeoning colonialism. The West's countereffort-a Southeast Asia pact-has yet to get off the ground. The U.S. has not yet decided who should belong or how much should be guaranteed. The British are not in a hurry, nor looking to a pact with teeth...
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