Word: countering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...administered to Senator Newberry--that America is a democracy, not a plutocracy. The danger in a Presidential election that votes will actually be purchased is practically a negligible one; still it is only just that the actual truth about campaign funds should receive as "pitiless publicity" as charges and counter-charges, rumors and denials, have now for some time commanded...
Mexico's soil seems a more fertile field for the seeds of revolution than that of any other country. Revolts and counter-revolts, executions and dictatorships, nowhere else are either so virulent or so persistent. Only through a rule of iron was Diaz able to maintain order, and at his policy of allowing foreigners to exploit Mexican resources the natives surged with discontent. The Mexican peon is like the dog in the manger; although he cannot govern himself, he will not long tolerate another's doing it; although he himself can not exploit the country's mineral wealth...
...fame almost overnight. Robert Nichols, a brother poet, has described the change in the following words: "The poetry of Siegfried Sassoon tends to divide itself into two rough classes--the idyllic and the satiric. War has defiled one to produce the other. At heart Siegfried Sassoon is an idealist." "Counter Attack" and "Picture Show" the poet's latest books, have still more increased his fame...
With the publication of his "Old Huntsman," Sassoon sprang into instant prominence, and his "Counter Attack" has led critics to place him in a class with Masefield and Noyes...
...German counter-revolution proves as bad as it looks today, possibly the Entente and the United States might have done well to listen to the advice of "French Imperialism." Then Germany would not have dared to have a monarchistic revolt, nor could she have so easily refused the just demands of the Allies by feigning trouble with the Sparticides. As to what the world shall do now, that is another question. We imagine it would be in the nature of a real job for England or the United States to put an army worthy of the name in Germany...