Word: counterattacking
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...armchair strategists and also from front-line fighters who could not help but be amazed when they read: Fifth Army Cracks Gothic Line Defenses." Rivers & Rain. While the controversy stirred the rear, G.Ls in the front struggled patiently with the tenacious Ger mans. The Americans fell back before a counterattack, riposted to regain lost ground and more. By week's end, Raticosa Pass was captured, the Fifth was over the crest of the mountains, could at last look down at Bologna 20 miles away...
Kited Cavalry. With ancient Aachen surrounded, the enemy belatedly rallied to counterattack. But at that moment of crisis came another. The first elements of Lieut. General Lewis H. Brereton's paratroops plunged to battle behind the Nazi troops holding the German right flank...
...forts, in a checkered labyrinth of woods and blockhouses, in roads dead-ended at gun range. But it is not designed to stop an enemy in his tracks. It is designed to exhaust an enemy who breaks into it, so that fresh reserves, using the classic Prussian defense by counterattack, can rush in and hurl him back...
That was all, except that the troop, promised a rest, got exactly half an hour of "rest," after they went into a rear area the next morning. When I last saw them, the column was on the road again, forming up for a counterattack in our valley...
...Counterattack. In desperation, the Goldwyn forces finally built a platform outside the El Patio ballroom. They hoped to get around the fire laws by showing the movie through the window. McNeil-Naify promptly threatened to bring suit because the platform blocked the sidewalk, and took splashy newspaper ads to point out that Reno moviegoers must now suffer the indignity of "uncarpeted floors . . . the whistle of freight trains . . . static in the sound system...