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Word: countereffort (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GENEVA: Peace of a Kind | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

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