Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Napoleon Bonaparte started for Moscow on June 24, 1812. Adolf Hitler started on June 22, 1941. Napoleon, whose fastest unit was the horse, reached Moscow on Sept. 14. This week, on Sept. 14, Hitler, whose fastest unit is the plane, was fighting Russian counter-attacks some 200 miles from Moscow. Napoleon stayed in Moscow for nearly six weeks, suffered cold and defeat in the frigid Russian winter, was back in Paris by Dec. 18. Later Napoleon said...
...Russia's enormous flanks were being bent inward last week, Russia's center was charging hard. In defense of Moscow, Marshal Semion Timoshenko's three-week-old counter-attacks were reported to be only twelve miles from Smolensk at one point. The Russians said they were constantly shelling that city...
...with the greatest insight into the true beauty of all that Harvard stands for, however, spends his days behind the counter of the Varsity Liquor Store...
Knowing this, Marshal Timoshenko was last week heavily engaged in counterattacks, designed to prevent the Germans from getting rolling again in the weather. The Reds called his efforts merely local attacks, but the Germans paid respects to "strategic counter-actions" i.e., the real stuff...
Center. Over boggy terrain in the Gomel area, Lieut. General Ivan Stepanovich Konev hurled pistonlike counterattacks. Russians claimed they had stopped the Nazi drive on Moscow in its tracks. The Nazis acknowledged that Russian "new armies" had made heavy counter assaults, but insisted they had been smothered. The Red Air Force announced a bag of 500 planes for the week ending...