Word: counteract
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...Benton and Wood, Curry and Marsh . . . went American so raucously, so insistently, that they provided and inspired an enormous flood of dull, routine anecdotes. . . . Each of the nationalist lads has his own little counter to set up trade. From it he dispenses post cards, heavy with facts, guaranteed to counteract any itch that jeopardizes a continued comfort...
...Mussolini's son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, as Italian envoy to the Holy See (TIME, Feb. 15) placed him in Vatican circles where he could mingle with envoys of nations at war with Italy. If Italy chooses to bid for peace, Ciano may have a chance to counteract the disgrace of his removal from Mussolini's Foreign Office and, capitalize on his many contacts with Britons and Americans...
...painted on walls, fences, street corners-wherever there was room. In France the four integers were scrawled in luminous paint which glowed eerily in blacked-out towns. In Paris it was everywhere. Likewise in Brussels, where the Nazi Brüsseler Zeitung found it necessary to try to counteract it editorially...
...Committee's arguments for a Jewish Army are that: 1) it would provide an effective and belligerent military force;* 2) by proving the military courage and heroism of Jews it would counteract antiSemitism; 3) by giving Jews a place of their own in the fighting, it would guarantee them a part in the peace. To Jews who back the Army proposal, a part in the peace means a Jewish state in Palestine: the Committee is supported by most of the 400,000 American Zionists...
They were singing a Ukrainian song which has no name. They leaned forward to counteract the steep trail, their long swords jangling against their stirrups, their bodies creaking on leather...