Word: counterpunch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...middle of the second round, both fighters were smeared with blood. The music rose to a frenzied tattoo. With every blow, the 8,000 Thais in the stadium chanted for more blood. Sriswasdi jerked Kaeh's head down and kneed him viciously under the chin, blocked a feeble counterpunch, spun his man around and jabbed at his ribs with both elbows. Dazed, his opponent backed away. Sriswasdi took aim and kicked him in the groin, finished him off with a knee in the belly. The crowd screamed approval...
Considerations: i) The Communists are almost totally mobile, and may concentrate against any single point; the French must rely upon the heavy counterpunch...
...took a step that was either a courageous act or a big mistake. At a press conference, two reporters, whose stories had been critical of McCarthy's hearings, needled Stevens into saying: "We have been unable to find anything relating to espionage." McCarthy burned and bored into the counterpunch. He grimly promised to open up the hearings and "let the evidence speak for itself." The Harry Dexter White case, which had given Joe $300,000 worth of free TV time, greatly enhanced interest in his revival of the Fort Monmouth hearings...
...triangular French-held Hanoi delta to the China border is a string of hedgehog defenses: the Black River line. Three weeks ago, when Communist General Giap (TIME, Nov. 17) attacked Laichau at the westernmost end of this line, General Linares had thrown in Operation Lorraine. It was a counterpunch, aimed to throw Giap's armies off balance and to cut one of his main supply lines from Communist China...
MacArthur's counterpunch had plenty of steam behind it. Truman, he said, "would relieve many millions of patriotic minds ... if, instead of indulging in innuendo and trying to alibi the past, he would announce the firm determination that under no conditions . . . would the U.S. permit Formosa to fall in Red hands or Communist China to be seated in the U.N. This simple and understandable assurance he has never given. I predict he never will...