Word: counter-attack
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...Counter-Attack (Columbia) has its off moments, but they do not keep it from being an absorbing and notable picture. Its story: a Russian paratrooper (Paul Muni) and a Partisan girl (Marguerite Chapman), seeking vital data about the location of enemy troops, are trapped with eight German soldiers in the basement of a shelled factory. The two Russians are armed, and they have lantern light and candles enough to last perhaps a week. An initialed German revolver leads them to suspect that an officer, who would have the information they seek, is hiding in disguise among their prisoners. Using their...
...extra large type of helmet has also been developed by the Advocate high command. This invention was reported to have been stolen by the 'Poon forces in a desperate counter-attack. The Literary brigade, the Advocate army's elite guard, may attack at any moment with a new and super-deadly poison sprayed at the enemy in an alcoholic medium. See your local liquor store for further details...
Opening with a first half scoring sprint the Crimson JV's romped to a quick 12 point lead, only to have the margin disintegrate in the face of a steady Bruin counter-attack. Dick Eder and Dick Forster, the former an all-Missouri Freshman, and the latter a recent acquisition from Varsity ranks, paced the aggregation in its attempt to fight off the Brown surge...
...alternatives and uncertainties. London and Washington responded, at least in part. Britain's Lord Beaverbrook, broadcasting to his native Canada from Miami Beach, emphatically called Russia "the most critical battlefront in the history of civilization." Winston Churchill began to talk of "the spirit of the offensive and counter-attack." The day after Mr. Maisky spoke, Churchill promised Britons some successes along with blood, tears and reverses in 1942. And, if the U.S. public was preoccupied with Australia and MacArthur, Washington was not. There, as never before, the conviction grew that the Allies must manage somehow to find a place...
Once again throwing his scrubs into the fray, McCoy saw this tremendous lead slowly vanish in the face of a determined prep counter-attack. But the stellar first five started the last quarter and soon had things well under control. Frank Bixler, Capt. Mike Keene and substitute forward Sam Post led the scoring with eight tallies apiece...