Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...frequent shift in personnel behind the counter of the Grille is one of the few indications the undergraduate has of the manpower crisis within the University. All the staff for the kitchens and the dining halls are provided through the Personnel Office which is hard put to find the skilled labor...
...reduced numbers, for cash-&-carry customers. The Times, in the three days, easily sold 100,000 copies over its own doorstep to readers who walked through quiet picket lines. The News, with the city's biggest daily circulation (1,975,000), averaged 50,000 over-the-counter sales...
...perhaps for long-range U.S. fighters. Casablanca (1,200 miles from southern Britain) can serve as a substitute, and as a depot for planes flown from the U.S. via Natal and Dakar; men and equipment can be hauled by rail from Casablanca to upper Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. The counter-preparations were well along. Allied strategists hoped that the Axis had missed the boat to Gibraltar...
Opening with a first half scoring sprint the Crimson JV's romped to a quick 12 point lead, only to have the margin disintegrate in the face of a steady Bruin counter-attack. Dick Eder and Dick Forster, the former an all-Missouri Freshman, and the latter a recent acquisition from Varsity ranks, paced the aggregation in its attempt to fight off the Brown surge...
LONDON--Fiercely counter-attacking Allied tanks, with rising air support, have smashed back Axis forces which penetrated one of their Terbourba positions, a communique announced tonight as the Allies held grimly to high ground commanding the roads to Bizerte and Tunis...