Word: counterthrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another count was that he had gathered information about the secret police, used it in a petition asking U.N. intervention against "mistreatment of citizens by the Polish government." Again Lipinski used the charge to make a counterthrust. The secret police, he asserted, "adversely affected the freedom of every Polish citizen...
Gamblers went after bets on a "daily double": Slaughter to win in August, Republican Albert Reeves Jr. in November. Representative Slaughter lost no time in giving a blunt counterthrust to the President's blunt attack. Said he: "The President of the United States is a prisoner of the C.LO.-P.A.C...
Rumanian forces, goaded on by German support, had trouble crossing the Prut, and Russia's most successful counterthrust made its way across the Danube toward Constantsa. The Germans seemed to be gathering forces for a seaborne flanking movement on the Russian naval base of Odessa...