Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese intensified their naval guerrilla tactics, both on the surface and with submarines, and for a month the U.S. Navy did not recognize or counter them. It held carrier forces in readiness for further battles, cruising up & down in narrow waters infested with enemy submarines. Losses were inevitable, and no damage was inflicted on the enemy by naval task forces...
Playing a team that is as yet an unknown quantity, the Bunnies could not push over a single counter against the strong Dunster line, and for three quarters the game was a see-saw, ding dong affair, with neither side really coming close. Sole exception was the first period goal line stand by the Funsters after an interception deep in their territory...
German and Italian casualties are piling up heavily but they are counter-attacking fiercely and have managed to slow down the general Allied advance, according to report...
Stalingrad was no longer a city. It was a place on the Volga, an expanse of rubbled homes and buildings, heaping corpses, tanks. The battle for Stalingrad was no longer a battle for that place alone. The Russians, widening their counter-attacks above and below the site where Stalin's city once stood, now saw the struggle on the Volga "as the center of gravity of the summer campaign." Stalingrad, they said, was no longer a separate segment of the Volga line, but a part of "general combat" from Leningrad to the Caucasus...
Hitherto WTEL's German-language broadcasts (even those of the Rev. Kurt E. B. Molzahn, convicted last month of espionage) have been largely nonpolitical. For real political dope, many Philadelphia German-Americans listened to Dr. Goebbels by short wave. The man who pioneered WTEL's political counter-broadcasts is Dr. Robert M. W. Kempner, exiled Prussian Minister of Justice, now at the University of Pennsylvania...