Lewis Strauss

Jovan Stosic September 15, 2018

Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss (/ˈstrɔːz/ “straws”; January 31, 1896 – January 21, 1974) was a Jewish American businessman, philanthropist, public official, and naval officer. He was a major figure in the development of nuclear weapons.

Strauss was the driving force in the controversial hearings, held in April 1954 before a U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Personnel Security Board, in which J. Robert Oppenheimer‘s security clearance was revoked. President Dwight D. Eisenhower‘s nomination of Strauss to become U.S. Secretary of Commerce in 1959 was not confirmed by the Senate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Strauss

Haakon Chevalier

Jovan Stosic September 15, 2018

Haakon Maurice Chevalier (Lakewood Township, New Jersey, September 10, 1901 – July 4, 1985) was an American author, translator, and professor of French literature at the University of California, Berkeley best known for his friendship with physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, whom he met at Berkeley, California in 1937.

Oppenheimer’s relationship with Chevalier, and Chevalier’s relationship with a possible recruiter for Soviet intelligence, figured prominently in a 1954 hearing of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission on Oppenheimer’s security clearance. At that hearing, Oppenheimer’s security clearance was revoked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haakon_Chevalier

Retaliation

Jovan Stosic September 14, 2018

Concise Oxford English Dictionary

retaliate
rɪ‘talɪeɪt■ verb make an attack in return for a similar attack.

retaliation noun
retaliative adjective
retaliator noun
retaliatory adjective

C17 (earlier (C16) as retaliation): from L. retaliat-, retaliare ‘return in kind’.

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Concise Oxford Thesaurus
retaliate
▶ verb FIGHT BACK, hit back, respond, react, reply, reciprocate, counter-attack, return like for like, get back at someone, give tit for tat, give someone a taste of their own medicine; have/get/take one’s revenge, be revenged, avenge oneself, take reprisals, get even, pay someone back; informal get one’s own back; archaic give someone a Roland for an Oliver.

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EngMac
retaliate
v. враќа мило за драго, се осветува; одмаздува

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English-Serbian dictionary
Retaliate
Protivtuzba-Osvetiti Se

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Merriam-Webster Collegiate® Dictionary
re·tal·i·ate

transitive verb : to repay (as an injury) in kind
intransitive verb : to return like for like especially : to get revenge
synonyms see RECIPROCATE
–re·tal·i·a·tion \ri-ˌta-lē-‘ā-shən, ˌrē-\ noun
–re·tal·i·a·tive \ri-‘ta-lē-ˌā-tiv\ adjective
–re·tal·ia·to·ry \-‘tal-yə–ˌtȯr-ē, –‘ta-lē-ə-\ adjective