Word: counterthrust
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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...
...Germany by the same threatening tactics which Bolshevik Stalin has employed successfully in recent weeks to vassalize Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and is now trying on Finland. Red Russia, once she got a whip hand over the Finns, would be strategically placed to threaten Scandinavia, unless Germany exerted a counterthrust, and in Stockholm last week the talk was gloomy. Current were such wry cracks as, "We shall soon know whether we Swedes are Germans or Russians...
Chief hope of the Loyalists when the Big Push gets under way is to start a diverting counterthrust at some inactive section of the front. So far this maneuver has always stopped Franco sooner or later because he has never had enough men to fight in two big areas at the same time...