Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Except on the high seas, where the counter-blockade went full-out, and along the Mediterranean, where each side air-raided the other's bases (see col.3), the war's 76th week was comparatively quiet...
...they had not counted on the devastating stalemate of blockade and counter-blockade. Their total foreign trade, instead of breaking upward, sheered off. Surpluses piled up. Fortnight ago, in Montevideo, their delegates sat down at a round table to figure a way out. Present were representatives of Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay and Bolivia; as observers, the U. S., Chile and Peru. The meeting called itself the first Regional Conference of the Plata River...
...would sing in his opera. Well she sang it, but she postured in stained-glass attitudes, walked in the gait of a woman trying out an unfamiliar wooden leg. Singing at her lover from a parapet, Soprano Moore pounded the scenery like a Bronx housewife pounding a counter, raised a cloud of dust that cruelly dispelled the mood of the moment. Obviously the Metropolitan needed not only more conductors like Guest Montemezzi, but also a good duster-wielding housekeeper...
...John Metaxas was dead (see p. 29). "Put us back in the ambulances," they said. "Send us back to the front." The Italians entirely miscalculated the effect of the Premier's death on Greek morale. Thinking the Greeks would go into a funk, they launched the heaviest counter-attacks of the whole war. They threaded tanks into the valleys, sent flame throwers onto the heights, and with steadier German hands to guide them, set strafing planes to hedgehop at risky low levels, to dive on causeways, bridges, gun emplacements. For the first time in months Rome was able...
...Italian guess was bad. Greek morale took a new lease. Determinedly the Greeks said that action of Kelcyre had now "lost the character of a movement of purely local importance." Greek forces rallied and hit Italian counter attacks with counter-attacks of their...