Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...constant pressure against the 40-mile front had had its effect. Rommel in alarm had begun to withdraw his stores and supplies. To counter what seemed to be the greatest threat, at the end of his line which was anchored to the seacoast, he had swung the 21st Panzer Division north. That was when the inexorable Montgomery struck...
...Africa Corps was counter attacking desperately all along the 40-mile desert front, fearing that the break-through by Australians at the north end of the line might result in a disastrous turning of the entire German left flank. Berlin reports said Field Marshal Erwin Rommel had gone into the battlefield personally to direct strategy...
...state was that this fall's buying boom is less the citizen's fault than that of his Government. One of the oldest theorums of practical economics is that if people have a lot of money, and if prices are held down, goods will go off the counter. The Administration by its own policies has created precisely these two conditions...
...Nature of Americans. In Atlanta, a woman returning home from the post office discovered she had left her piggy bank behind, went back for it, found it on the counter, heavy with donations...
MOSCOW--Russian troops fell back to new battle posts under concentrated German assaults in the Nalchik area of the Caucasua yesterday but counter-attacked strongly in some parts of Stalingrad and forged ahead through several enemy positions, the Red Army announced today...