Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Retaliations and counter-retaliations, like the pendulum of some deadly clock, last week were gradually swinging Brazil and the Axis toward...
...airmen were busy too. Russian pilots worked hardest at knocking down transport planes with supplies for the German "centers of resistance." The Nazis sent pursuit planes to protect the transports. Result: counter-claims of destruction that put the total of downed planes for the week in the hundreds on both sides...
...Bataan peninsula, rich young Andres Soriano, onetime unofficial pro-Fascist representative of General Francisco Franco in Manila, organized Filipino volunteers into a "Rizal Legion" (named for the national patriot, Jose Rizal) for jungle counter-sniping at the Japanese. > "Increasingly effective" throughout other parts of the Philippines was the F.F.F. (Fight for Freedom), a secret band whose terrorizing of Japanese, as well as of native traitors and informers, recalled the dreaded KKK (Kataas-tassan Kaga-lang-galang Katipunan ng Bayan) which opposed Spanish rule...
...wood, which can produce sound combinations as fascinating as static in a transatlantic broadcast, rhythms more intriguing than the clickety-clack of a 60-mile-an-hour express. Samba music is no exception. It has its own Brazilian instruments; some tick off a steady one-two-one-two, others counter with a galloping rhythm...
These slicings have caused the curtailment of several half courses which these specific men taught, but the department has attempted to counter this by adding two courses connected with the war. Public Personnel Administration, 42, a half course, and Inter-American Relations, 11c. Fifty students are enrolled in the latter and nine in the former...