Word: counterattacked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German Army's weakness which causes the German retreat in the East. Already today the German troops would be able to fight the Russians successfully. Other common European tasks have necessitated German retreat. But one day a counterattack will come...
...well-known to newsmen-and to the enemy. On the night before the blunder 220 planes took off from North Africa. Faulty navigation and general inexperience dropped all except one battalion of the parachutists in the wrong spots. But that battalion captured its objective and held it against counterattack. On that mission eight planes were lost (none to friendly antiaircraft fire...
...facts in the above instances call for more moderate language, then sacrifice colorful writing and say: 'Allied forces today moved toward X'; Allied air forces today continued their repeated bombings'; 'The German defenses of Z today were hard hit.' Even the word 'counterattack' may be a misnomer. It may be an out-and-out attack...
News is the G.I.s' favorite radio item-and they get plenty of it. There are no commentators, experts, keyholers, just the cold facts. The Germans, for instance, do not "counterattack," they "advance." Says Baruch: "You can't eyewash the boys or smooth anything over; they're too close...
...battle. They reminded the General: 1) that a BBC broadcast, day after the Jan. 22 landings, had been responsible for too much cheer by reporting that "Alexander's brave troops are pushing towards Rome . . . should reach it within 48 hours"; 2) that the subsequent gloom, when the German counterattack was conscientiously reported, had not been helped by official statements at home. Up spoke the Chicago Daily News'?, belligerent William Stoneman: "The biggest scare of all was given by the President of the United States...