Word: counterthrust
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...troops in and around Phnom-Penh (with insurgent forces estimated at 20,000), fewer than 12,000 are regarded as battle effective. Thousands of others perform headquarters tasks or serve as bodyguards for Lon Nol and other military and political officials. Therefore a significant counterthrust by the government remains out of the question. All the regime seems capable of doing is waiting to see what the insurgents will spring after the bombing ends...
...years, U.S. companies have been expanding overseas with Napoleonic gusto, swallowing up local firms from Stockholm to Singapore. Now a counterthrust is gathering momentum. European and Japanese businessmen are beginning to see the U.S. as a vast market ripe for exploitation; they are rushing to open Stateside banks, factories and distribution centers...
...means of perspective and which Cubism achieved through its multiplicity of facets. The forms of Ribbon with Squares, No. 731, 1944, simply hover in an illimitable field of color, whose depth cannot be guessed; they evoke what Kandinsky called "floating sensations," whose only concern is with thrust and counterthrust, disembodied, in free fall...
...Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., charging that its foreign mission board was "discriminating against conservative missionaries" who preached the virgin birth and other fundamentalist doctrines. That same year Mclntire founded a splinter congregation, the Bible Presbyterian Church, headquartered in Collingswood, N.J. In 1948 he organized the I.C.C.C. as a counterthrust to the newly founded World Council, which he branded "apostate" and an "ecumenical monster...
...thrust and counterthrust took place at one of a series of group-therapy sessions designed to promote understanding between Houston's police and Negroes. The six-week programs have been going on since last September. On each of six consecutive Fri days, as many as 200 policemen, divided into groups of 12 to 15, meet with equal numbers of citizens-both black and white-to thrash out differences. The fourth batch is now attending the three-hour sessions, each of which is guided by a trained psychologist...