Word: countermarch
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From a tense week of legal march and countermarch, political charge and countercharge, the U.S. emerged one big step behind its starting point. Plain for the world to see and ponder was the sorry possibility that Little Rock's Central High School, integrated last year in a costly, painful victory for law and morality, might reopen next week lily-white...
...Nevertheless, the Union was in dire need of professional officers, and Lincoln gave him temporary command in Kentucky. Sherman was always an agitated smoker; his tobacco consumption kept pace, says Author Miers, with his expanding fears of responsibility. In a haze of smoke and anxiety, he ordered his "insane" countermarch from Cumberland...
...first the Communist Party did the American Veterans Committee a favor: it denounced the A.V.C. as a "bunch of Ivy Leaguers," ordered Communists to bore into the American Legion instead. But the Legion was no pink tea party. A year ago the comrades got orders to countermarch into the A.V.C...
...Chiang Kai-shek's military planes-piloted by a young Iowan-and once afoot, mere yards ahead of the Red vanguard. His latest letter, dated in January, warns me that despite all I may read, "no Communist army has yet been defeated in Kweichow:" the Reds countermarch where they please, occasionally withdrawing before the National army, never embarrassed by it. In short, the whole story of Chiang's victories is balderdash...
China has no government properly speaking but is the spoil of military adventurers who march and countermarch up and down tha land in a conglomerate civil war. Noteworthy, this state of affairs makes it impossible for the Powers to abandon the safeguarding of their citizens in China by the principle of extraterritoriality under which foreigners are tried before courts of their own nationals set up in China...