Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...follow the clicking white cue-ball in its geometrical course. There, in the cozy twilight, they howl and argue and relax. When their backs cluster too thickly around the play, they turn and shout for help. They cry for the arbiter of this musky underworld, and from behind the counter a grey old man, watching with cold, steel-blue eyes, rises slowly and shows the boys. And once old Ben shows the boys, he may be seen casually running off five hundred at straight rail...
...knows his business. He has sat at his counter for more than twenty years, watching many generations of Harvard men come and go. And he has seen palmier days. Once he had some claim to celebrity. Then the Hub, down in Boston, was his stamping ground, and he played in all the local tournaments. For one reason or another he never did go into the nationals, yet he has squared off with the best of them in exhibition matches. Hoppe, Schaeffer, and Adijohn--he recalls them all, when "they were pretty good, but still had a lot to learn...
Result of all this claiming, reclaiming and counter-claiming was to whittle down German and Allied naval losses in the northern campaign to something close to their probable size. The discrepancies that remain are probably due to the reports of air bombers, who, experience has shown, usually overestimate the damage they do. Meantime, at the very moment when German tall-talking was at its height, and when Little Caesar down in Rome was threatening to stop talking and shoot, the British were given a new reassurance. Somewhere off the coast of Britain, with their anti-aircraft guns loaded and alert...
Sheer sacrifice was what the German Navy's performance really boiled down to. Winston Churchill was not merely rhetorical when, after only three days of fighting, he called the Nazi Navy already "deeply mutilated" in respect to cruisers, "a mere counter to be cast away for a particular operation...
Leading the counter-offensive will be Captain Tom Healey of the Stahlmen, who is out to bag his first victory over Hatch. Healey is smarting under two defeats meted out to him by the Jumbo leader last season...