Word: countered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sweet shops, which in Germany at this time of year usually bulge with sugared dainties of all sorts, many a counter is piled with small gnarled apples...
...land, the Russian attack was launched at four places. In the northern corridor the objective was Finland's ice-free port of Petsamo. Heavy snow prevented the use of artillery here and Finnish counter-attacks recaptured Petsamo after its seizure. Russian prisoners taken were found to be ill-equipped for zero weather; many had frozen feet. Noncombatant Finns fled into Norway in busses camouflaged with bedsheets, were strafed from the air by Red fliers. Some 800 Finnish troops, equipped with skis, stood off the attack of several thousand Russians, but had orders to retire into Norway when Red reinforcements...
George Roberts, who played for the Crimson in 1933, will counter for St. Nick's with the former Eli players, Bob Cooke and Billy Moore, as his flankmen. Captain Blake Shepard, former Eli star, and Bob Burke of Princeton form the blue line while Peter Grayee of Yale will tend...
Loudest protest of all was fired off in London by Mamoru Shigemitsu, Japan's Ambassador. He was instructed to say that "in case vital interests of Japan should be affected . . . Japan would be compelled to take appropriate counter-measures." This was tough talk from a country whose fondness for Germany is supposed to have been cooled by the Hitler-Stalin Deal. But Japan, threatened by an embargo of U. S. exports to her at the next session of the U. S. Congress, faced a tough spot...
...France counter-threatened that any German ship acquired by a neutral since hostilities began might be treated as an enemy. This applied pointedly to the $20,000,000 Bremen, reported last week to have been taken over by Soviet Russia in exchange for supplies for Germany...