Word: counte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knew this was no showcase equipment. Bataan's One-Man Army, who brags a heap but always makes good, is officially credited by his regimental commander with killing at least 80 Japs singlehanded. Flamboyant Captain Wermuth, who often works alone, claims 116. His men do not question his count...
...Bardossy that this was impossible. Then the Wilhelmstrasse tried to blackmail Hungary by threatening to "rectify" the 1940 Vienna award which returned Transylvania to Hungary. Having struggled most of his public life to regain Hungary's lost territories, Dr. Bardossy tried to follow the example of his predecessor, Count Paul Teleki, who, when pressed too hard by the Germans, put a bullet through his head. (Dr. Bardossy was prevented...
Last week the Navy Department's count of tankers lost in the western Atlantic since Dec. 7 reached 17, an average of six a month. Although tanker production during 1941 was only 15 ships, 1942-43 calls for 215 new vessels, an average of 18 a month. But even these promising figures could not overcome the chill fact that the onetime Allied trump card, oil, was no longer a trump. The submarines that smacked shells at the refineries of Aruba and California were probing for vital or gans, for these refineries produce high-octane aviation gasoline, of which...
...moment was: "If England wins, we are losers; if Germany wins, we are lost." The underground Matteotti society circulated an antiFascist, anti-German newspaper. Students toyed with Rivoluzionario groups; older antiFascists were increasingly active in the Free Italy secret organization directed in the U.S. by cultured, white-bearded Count Sforza...
...factors that no amount of chest thumping could counteract. From a symbol of greatness Mussolini by last week had become a laughingstock to millions of Italians. His daughter, Edda Ciano, was aware of the shame, prayed for an hour each day in a Roman cathedral. Her husband, Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, appeared everywhere flanked by secret-service men. He was as bitter as the people. "No wonder we blunder," he said. "Mussolini is lovesick-so lovesick he has no time for affairs of state...