Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...counter-move last week, Leftist parties organized a new National Democratic Front. Its avowed aims: to put down Nazi & Fascist activities, work for a break with the Axis. But some of the Rightists are anti-Axis, too, and approve Foreign Minister Ernesto Barros Jarpa's recent cautious statement that Chile is "non-belligerent" on the side of the U.S. What all Rightists chiefly want is to see internal splits healed along strongman. Rightist lines. And cold, hawk-nosed President Rios looked like their...
...China last week the Japanese held all but 50 of the 450 miles of railroad between Nanchang and Hangchow, and they strove mightily to close the last gap. Chinese counter-drives did not stop them. The Japanese had nearly completed the first step in gaining control of an overland route all the way from Shanghai to Indo-China, Siam, Burma and Malaya. That would remove a great load from their transports and warships. And it would bring China perilously close to defeat...
...Spanish War or in one of his many personal encounters in civilian life. Levy specialties, as taught in both Britain and the U.S.: use of incendiaries, bombs and grenades, harassing enemy communications, and tactics such as: delaying armored vehicles with infantry, small improvised weapons, hand-to-hand combat, scouting, counter-parachute-troop action, street fighting...
...British have openly expressed a lack of confidence in the conduct of the war. But while Rommel had the English with their backs to the Mediterranean so often that both sides were becoming bored, he had never before finally and conclusively pushed them into it. And although the Soviet counter-offensive had frequently stalled and even receded momentarily, the German counter-counter-offensive has never threatened so important a key as Kharkov, capable of undoing a winter and spring of Russian blood. Nor did reverses on all fronts usually come at once; this time there is nothing that the coddling...
...this world have the same desperate deafness to the voice of reason the same vulnerability to the voices of church, state, school, law, wealth, authority m all its forms. Reason: these voices are themselves the voices of the Tewlers Between outsize Tewlers who lead and run-of-the-counter Tewlers who follow, Tewlensm is responsible for the present state of the world...