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The British counterplan, Operation COLD WATER, went into effect: Thirty airplanes took off for Berlin.

Human Smoke Nicholson Baker 2008

David recently commented that "The debaters pushing the envelope of innovation don't need Brechtian Performative Invitational Ironic Interpretive Masai Dance (with a dispositional counterplan) to beat two kids who just transferred from a community college to a nationally-ranked four-year school and are in their first Open-division round ever at a major tournament."

Debbie Seltzer: The Politics of Discourse and Exclusion 2008

After a long period of normal progress, Jefri had come back with a counterplan.

A Fire Upon the Deep Vinge, Vernor 1992

When he determined the strength of the plot against his life and that of his partner Dominic Goldoni, he developed a counterplan.

Floating City Lustbader, Eric 1990

I obeyed, because I had no counterplan, and I had come, during our association, to give credit to Eet.

The Zero Stone Norton, Andre 1968

With customary resilience, Napoleon lost no time in sizing up the new situation and devising a counterplan.

THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

With customary resilience, Napoleon lost no time in sizing up the new situation and devising a counterplan.

THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

So bold an adventurer, so keen an intriguer was sure to have scented the trap immediately, and if he appeared ready to fall into it, it was because there had already sprung up in his resourceful mind some bold coup or subtle counterplan, with which he hoped to gratify his own passionate love of sport, whilst once more bringing his enemies to discomfiture and humiliation.

The Elusive Pimpernel Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906

Plan and counterplan, and the argument invariably came back to where it began -- she must call upon Constans for the aid which he had promised to place at her disposal.

The Doomsman Van Tassel Sutphen 1903

To give time for a counterplan, the Marquis de Lafayette, the valuable friend and citizen of this, as well as that country, wrote to a gentleman in Boston, to dissuade the fishermen from accepting the British proposals, and to assure them that their friends in France would endeavor to do something for them.

Reports and Opinions While Secretary of State 1892