Word: counteract
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Diplomatically the mission's main job will be to counteract intensive Nazi propaganda. To do so it hopes to arrange for large stocks of British goods to be sent for "spot sale," avoiding shipping delays and countering Nazi claims that Britain, faced with inevitable defeat, cannot guarantee delivery of goods abroad...
...faced converts, but none of whom had ever before shown any absorbing interest in pure politics. At his shoulder were Kentucky's Alben Barkley and Happy Chandler, whose desperately dirty 1938 campaign had roused public support to Hatch Bill I. Then Senate Leader Barkley had used WPA to counteract Governor Chandler's Highways Department payrollers. Now both had seen the light. Said Happy to Alben: "I'm for this bill. I wouldn't want anyone to do to me what...
...battle of Viipuri. The Russians claim to have shot down 191 airplanes since Feb. 11th. This was 41 more than the entire Finnish Air Force at the beginning of the war. And that drive has netted the Russians a great store of small arms. As if to counteract these losses the Finns last week routed the 34th Tank Brigade north of Lake Laatokka, captured 105 tanks, twelve armored cars, six guns, 200 trucks, left 2,000 dead Russians...
...obvious that "Little Old New York" is fact with a hypo of romanticism in the hands of several west coast writers, but substantial acting and careful attention to scenery counteract this defect. The good ship "Clermont" looks as if it might have been built to the original plans, and Hollywood shows years of experience in reproducing the saloons and docks of New York of every age. Alice Faye feels right at home in her own tavern, having at last become an owner. Her thwarted love for Fulton descends upon Fred MacMurray, an uninspired but satisfactory waterfront bum who turns into...
Authoritarian though Brazil is, its Estado Novo has no political link with Italy's Stato Corporativo, Germany's Third Reich. When war started, with German agents swarming over the country, trying to buy up Brazilian papers to counteract Brazil's Allied sympathies, President Vargas clamped on the press a censorship as tight and thorough as Edouard Daladier's control of the French press...