retaliations

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Retaliations and counter-retaliations, like the pendulum of some deadly clock, last week were gradually swinging Brazil and the Axis toward war.

From Time Magazine Archive

Retaliations and reprisals followed thick on one another.

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis