Word: blows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great running fight between the Congress and the President, the House had struck a foul blow. Last week the Senate tried to make amends for that blow...
Eight of the 19 Lancasters did not see England again. They were the necessary sacrifice for one of the most daring and profitable exploits of the air war against Germany. What the big four-motored planes did that night was worth the loss of a division: they dealt a blow which German industry in the Ruhr would feel for many months...
...first blow struck. Ziemer swears he did nothing but fend off his assailant. Alcott says: "I took him." A studio guard intervened, ordered Alcott outside and locked the door. Through the door Ziemer understood Alcott to say: "You're a German spy." "That wasn't what I said at all," said Alcott. "I said that sometimes he sounded like a Nazi...
...Navy has not yet decided what it will do with the ship when she can plow the waves again. The Arizona is being cut up for scrap. Her turret mechanism, main and secondary batteries will be used elsewhere. Even the old Utah may yet deal a blow for revenge : some of her ammunition has been recovered, and her sister ships may fire it at the infamous...
...Field Marshal Sir Archibald Wavell's staff to lead a column of raiders. When he watched the Bonchaung railway bridge rise in a cloud of smoke and then settle into the gorge, the Major said softly: "Now I know that all my life I've wanted to blow up bridges...