Word: counterthrust
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Jack Kennedy carefully chose his ground for his counterthrust on religion, and it was plainly hostile ground. Looking something like a parson himself, dressed in severe black suit and black tie, he strode purposefully into the ballroom of Houston's Rice Hotel last week to address and be questioned by the Greater Houston Ministerial Association under the eye of a statewide TV. Nervously he worked his thumbs together, rubbed his fists back and forth, sipped water several times as he waited through the introductions and opening prayer. "What's the mood of the ministers?" he asked his press...
Every week from now until election, TIME will carry the news of the campaign, describing and examining the candidates, appraising and analyzing the issues, and chronicling the thrust and counterthrust between the two great parties-missing neither the fun nor the significance of that fascinating show and key world event that comes every four years in the contest for the U.S. presidency...