Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...false. Mahler lived in a confused time and was himself a mass of contradictory tendencies. You have in him the paradox of a composer who, in contrast to the tone-painting and theme-overlapping of Wagner and Strauss, wrote in the classical symphonic form with a sound knowledge of counter-point, yet one who was essentially homophonic in style and never attained the balance and integrated development that the classical forms imply...
Lies, rumors, jokes, canards, insults, obscenities, denials, bluffs, excuses, exhortations, explanations, reassurances, trial balloons and grotesque distortions continued to spew from the world's radios last week. Most of it was Axis concoctions; some of it was Allied counter-propaganda. Behind the radio barrage fell a blizzard of newspaper squibs, handbills, pamphlets, posters. In free countries men speculated aloud with laughter and curses; in Europe they whispered behind their hands in dim cafes and shuttered homes. It was a big week in the battle of babble...
Like one of the fastest airplanes that ever flew,† the two-man Japanese submarines which attacked Pearl Harbor had contrarotating propellers -two tandem screws placed close together, turning in opposite directions. Blades on the second screw are pitched counter to those of the other screw so that both thrust in the same direction. Such devices for U.S. warplanes were announced last week to be "in the developmental stage" by Curtiss-Wright, United Aircraft, other plane builders...
What answer is there to the radio which cautions the world against the democracy which is coming to Asia to hang men without trial or burn them alive? Shall we merely counter with Nazi horror tales, or deny that colored draftees were fired on in North Carolina? Or would it be better to reassure the Allies' colonials that we reserve such treatment solely for our domestic Negroes...
Heavy infantry assaults were repulsed by the greatly outnumbered American-Filipino forces while across Manila Bay from Bataan concealed Japanese short batteries, which have been hammering at American island fortifications for three days, were subject to effective counter-fire...