Word: blows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forward slightly, favoring his left ear, talking fast. "Got my hands like this hulling pecans yesterday. Today I've been in the cornfield since early morning-I took the 'down row'-had to bend down, following the wagon. I wish we had time to strike a blow for Liberty, Harry...
...Deceptive Blow. This was what Douglas MacArthur had long advocated, with an intensity which seemed wholly justified because he believed he had been ordered out of Corregidor only in order to lead a counterinvasion soon. Now at last he was striking his massive blow, far behind the enemy's main positions, where the enemy neither expected it nor had organized himself to resist it effectively...
October was running out, and the October weather had been mostly bad. Low-lying meadows were spongy with waters; rivers and streams were rising. Aided by the weather and by the Allies' supply difficulties, the Germans fought to delay the big blow which they were sure was coming. The Allies fought to keep the enemy off balance, to keep him guessing, to keep his scanty reserves...
...Bombs. Whether the Germans had rightly guessed where the main blow would fall or whether they had been maneuvered into shifting their strength to the wrong spot was still an Allied secret. But it was no secret that when the blow fell its fury would be worse than anything the Germans had felt before in the west...
...theme from a well-known spiritual. At the Kyrie, the theme of Nobody Knows de Trouble I've Seen invokes the mercy of the Lord, and at the Gloria, Go Down, Moses proclaims His glory. For the profession of faith at the Credo there is the theme of Blow Your Trumpet, Gabriel. At the Sanctus and Benedictus ("Blessed is He that cometh in the Name of the Lord") are the melo dies of Goin' Home and Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, and at the Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) the devout and placid music of Deep River...