Word: blows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...place myself in such a position so I could put my feet against his stomach, catch him by the shoulders and shove him away. Well, I got hold of him somehow; I think it was about the shoulders but I'm not sure. Then I swung an overhead blow right into his face. He loosened his hold and I didn't see him any more...
Under the constant pounding, the Del Commune began to stagger. Her joints creaked. With every blow her decks seemed to buckle. She sprang a leak under the stern transom. Given time, she seemed bound to shake herself to pieces. "You just cain't go kickin' this river around this way," murmured one of Captain Joe's copilots. "You just cain...
Cagey as a boxer readying a blow or parrying a punch, Japan shifted its weight in the South Pacific. On the eastern side of New Guinea, the Japs had been pushed back. Now fresh troops and supplies were being pushed forward into bases farther west - Timor, Amboina, the Aru Islands and New Guinea's western shore...
...fighting went into its second spring, one paradox grew plain: though the Allied position in the past year had improved infinitely, Japan's position was not correspondingly worse. The fighting had only taken up the slack in battle lines. Now each adversary had a firm foothold. The next blow would be to the other's body. The race to assemble the requisite sea and air power probably would determine where and when that blow would fall...
...British troops invaded French North Africa. The world's hopes rose: this was the western Allies' first direct land blow toward Axis Europe. The hopes of Frenchmen soared: this was a blow for the liberation of France...