Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...latest Red Army offensive, many German "hedgehog" strong points had been overrun, but many had stood as outposts for a possible Nazi counter-drive. Among them had been Poznan, Torun, Schneidernühl, Arnswalde, Grudziadz, Breslau. Of these pockets of resistance, only two still stood this week: Grudziadz (on the Polish Corridor approaches to Danzig) and Breslau-and both appeared doomed...
...Japanese are counting on stockpiles of raw materials and dispersal of war plants to counter Allied bombings. Above all, they rely on their island position and their fertility. Said the missionary: "Japan's population is increasing at the rate of 2,000,000 a year, which means 1,000,000 fresh troops annually. . . . The 3,000,000 recruits acquired since 1941 are as well-trained, tough and fanatical as the old. . . . The Japanese will not collapse suddenly. They still think they can get away with their spoils...
...side of the shop is a Western Union ticker machine, its burden of basketball, hockey and fight results magnified on a moving screen. On the opposite side, half-time and final basketball results are chalked up on a large blackboard as they roll in. Behind the counter, house men with Edward G. Robinson accents answer a battery of telephones...
Fine Weather. It was fine weather for a withdrawal, and canny Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt made the most of it. Volksgrenadiere in trenches took up the fight, while armor and SS infantry pulled out. In some sectors, the punching, pushing Allies encountered aggressive "counter-reconnaissance screening forces"-in others, only mines in the snow, unguarded roadblocks and the eternal booby traps. Around Bastogne, Rundstedt counterattacked persistently to shield the swelling stream of German tanks and transport flowing east through Houffalize and Saint-Vith...
...TIME War Correspondent James Shepley left Supreme Allied headquarters in France, flew to New York. Within the bounds of security, this is his report on the German counter offensive...