Word: counterpunches
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...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...
...many Three-Musketeer antics as a fencing team can. John Gay used to slash his saber as if he were swatting mosquitoes in a Cuban jungle. Red McNeil had his own little trick. He'd lunge out with a saber and then roll onto his back to escape the counterpunch. It was unconventional and it looked good, even if it was kid stuff...
...This time, when Joe Louis hit the floor, it looked as if he might stay there. He got up at the count of seven. Gradually, through the swelling roar, people realized that they were seeing a Joe Louis who had lost his stuff. Once he had used a deadly counterpunch as his best defense. Now, his reflexes were too slow. In the ninth, he had his best round, slugging it out with his lighter (by 16½ lbs.) foe. But Jersey Joe Walcott, backed into the ropes, took it all, and gave something in return...
...step, to produce the lush, powerful Stokowski tone. He improved broadcasting Studio 8-H with a new ceiling and a set of acoustical gadgets. The improvements left Conductor Toscanini (who had always kicked about the acoustics of Studio 8-H him self) biting his nails. Stokowski got a counterpunch in 1942 when he went east from California to make a bid for the U.S. premiere of Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony, and found that Toscanini had snatched it from under his nose. Last week's announcement solemnly promulgated the theory that it is undesirable for the NBC Symphony...