Word: blows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manford Act is just a straw in the wind; and believe me, that wind would not blow if the he-men of Texas were not absent overseas fighting for freedom...
...disaster. It was audacity which led General Nikolai Vatutin, one of Russia's ablest exponents of blitz warfare, to strike west of Kiev with tanks and horsemen, without adequate infantry or cannon. The muddy roads delayed supplies and reinforcements, but the opportunity to deal the Wehrmacht a finishing blow was too tempting to forgo. Zhitomir fell (TIME, Nov. 22). The cavalry corps which took it seemed poised for a raid into prewar Poland...
...spite a faithless fiancé, a dancing actress (Eleanor Powell) marries a man (Red Skelton) who, she believes, owns a gold mine. She kicks him out when she learns that he is really a pants-presser, grabs him back when he foils a saboteur's attempt to blow up a munitions warehouse...
...Cherkassy direction our troops . . . together with guerrillas . . . struck an unexpected blow. . . . In October several guerrilla detachments in the Tarnopol region blew up 33 enemy troop trains, two armored trains and a railway bridge. . . . At the beginning of November the Germans sent out a large punitive expedition against one of the guerrilla detachments. In a two-day engagement the Soviet patriots wiped out more than 100 enemy officers and men and forced the enemy to retreat...
...Whenever an X-ray plate or the bone itself shows any sign of damage to the skull's outer shell, a small, exploratory burr hole should be made at that spot. Reason: a blow which causes a slight bruise on the skull's outer shell often causes a serious fracture of the inner shell. In one case, where only a threadlike crack showed on the surface, a bit of the skull's inner shell had been driven almost an inch into the brain...