Word: countersuit
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...strength, and his sledgehammer rang a merry tune. Listen to the prizes! Who can say which is the Blue Ribbon of the Vastest Common Denominator? His speculation upon the possibilities of FBI or Kennedy interests involved in her death made a hearty feast for The National Enquirer; his countersuit with one of his sources who had charged him with plagiarism found a willing niche in the news pages of the New York Times--this was no mere litery matter; The Ladies Home Journal wanted a blockbuster excerpt; the 25 million readers of that most self respecting Sunday supplement scandal sheet...
...pursuing Stans' countersuit, Lawyer Kenneth Wells Parkinson said that he served the subpoenas to learn about any libelous statements that Democrats may have made about Republicans during last year's presidential campaign. So broad was the information demanded by the subpoenas that Washington Post Executive Editor Benjamin Bradlee commented: "They've asked for everything except the lint in our pockets...
...years trying to coerce the School Committee into integrating the schools, the state was fed up. This broken promise was the last straw. The state froze $52 million in state funds to the Boston Schools. The School Committee sued to release the money and the state filed a countersuit charging Boston with not complying with...
...debate, Vidal called Buckley a "crypto-Nazi," to which Buckley replied: "Listen, you queer, stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I'll sock you in your goddam face and you'll stay plastered." That sounded faintly libelous itself. Asked if he planned to file a countersuit, Vidal said, "It's possible...
...night he telephoned her to say that he couldn't live without her; by day he planned divorce proceedings. Mia heard about them not from her husband but from his attorney. Coolly she announced that she wanted no financial settlement?which apparently stunned the singer more than a countersuit for a million. After the lawyer's visit, she took Sinatra's private plane to Los Angeles?where she found an airport full of reporters who could only have been tipped off by Sinatra's associates. Terrified, Mia talked the pilot into taking off and depositing her at another airport miles...