Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They could act with China to put a counter-pincer on the Japanese pincer in the Indies. This would have to be done by building up a striking force in Australia sufficiently strong to work its way up through the Indies and make a juncture with the Chinese; it would be a U.S. and Australian force, and it would not be ready by spring...
...Allies could act with Russia to put a counter-pincer on the German pincer in Europe. This would entail an assault in force on Europe timed to coincide with a major Russian drive. It would depend on the British. Apparently the Germans fear such a move. There have been rumors that Hitler would invade Sweden soon-as a counter-counter pincer on the expected counter-pincer on his pincer. Last week, with no ostensible reason for doing so, the Stockholm correspondent of the New York Times went out of his way to suggest the possibility by denying it: "Swedish...
Tickets are bought, not through a cage-barred wicket, but over a hip-high counter of light natural birch. Washrooms have bright red, non-defaceable metal partitions. The waiting room has walls and ceiling of Flexboard (no plaster to chip and crack), is brightly lighted at night by round, porthole-like fixtures built almost flush with the ceiling. Slightly more expensive to build than old-style stations, Edgewood's (at $18,000) is expected to save money through virtual absence of maintenance costs...
Once again throwing his scrubs into the fray, McCoy saw this tremendous lead slowly vanish in the face of a determined prep counter-attack. But the stellar first five started the last quarter and soon had things well under control. Frank Bixler, Capt. Mike Keene and substitute forward Sam Post led the scoring with eight tallies apiece...
Asked if Australia would be a favorable base for a counter-attack, de Haas said, "Decidely not. Port Darwin is too far from the supply lines that Japan must maintain to keep her forces now in the Dutch Indies supplied...