Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...extra large type of helmet has also been developed by the Advocate high command. This invention was reported to have been stolen by the 'Poon forces in a desperate counter-attack. The Literary brigade, the Advocate army's elite guard, may attack at any moment with a new and super-deadly poison sprayed at the enemy in an alcoholic medium. See your local liquor store for further details...
Winning touchdown of his argument is an amazing parallel between Montgomery's victory at El Alamein and a "fullback counter" run from Shaughnessy's T formation (see cut). The tactics are almost identical...
...country seemed destined to become a battlefield. To keep their hold and ensure a pro-Nazi regime, the Germans might send in an army of occupation; the Allies might counter with an invasion of the Balkans; watchful opportunist Turkey might now enter the war on the Allied side. Cabled New York Timesman Ray Brock through the Turkish censorship: "The time might come when the Turks would consider it necessary to march into the Balkans in order to protect Turkey's frontiers and security...
Life on the Fringes. Brown-haired Subaltern Mary Churchill had a busy, flattering vacation. Quebec girls sent her bundles of fan mail. She went shopping, headed straight for the underwear counter, confided to the clerk: "The ones I've got on, I made out of the skirt of an old evening dress." She held a press conference, described her father as "awfully nice to work for and not a bit difficult...
...American prisoners; one of their own men was badly shot up. They proposed that the parachutists take all three wounded to a U.S. first-aid station in exchange for their own freedom. A temporary truce was accepted, with the understanding that the Americans would make no immediate attempt to counter-capture the Germans...