counterblow

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The following year, the Kroll Opera, Otto Klemperer’s progressive Berlin company, delivered a counterblow to the nazification of Wagner when it mounted The Flying Dutchman in proletarian modern dress.

From The Guardian • Sep. 17, 2020

That’s probably the sort of thing we will do in Mali—and what we should do, if France’s rapid counterblow doesn’t stave off the threat.

From Slate • Jan. 17, 2013

The delay of the German counterblow was no serious sign of German weakness on the ground, but the absence of the Luftwaffe was significant.

From Time Magazine Archive

He planned the invasion of eastern Poland in 1939; he beat Finland; he timed the great counterblow from Moscow in December.

From Time Magazine Archive

The war again raged, blow and counterblow, flux and reflux; the armies pressed on; now one saw from Thurm the hosts of the enemy, now the approach of friends.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav