Word: blows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will always strike first. We will always deal the first blow...
...that carefully planned reconnaissance system failed, few civilians could tell when the blow was struck. But the important thing thereafter was that the lifeline had been cut between Pearl Harbor and Manila. It was even possible that its anchor had lost a great part of its effectiveness as a supply-repair base and reserve fortress for the fleet in the Pacific. And if that were true, the loss would be greater than the loss in warships, immeasurably greater in its implications than the wreckage of planes at Hickam Field...
Punch & Reel. The enemy had struck its first blow. Only ten months ago Admiral Husband Edward Kimmel was jumped over 46 flag officers to take the senior job afloat in the U.S. Navy. It was a strange commentary on the memories of civilians and Navymen alike that after Port Arthur* this blow should have come as a surprise. Long before Hitler, the Japanese Navy had shown what the swift thrust, before declaration of war, could...
...House rose in wrath last week, swung a roundhouse blow at a face that it had come to hate: the huge mug of John L. Lewis. The blow caromed off Lewis' massive chins, and smacked Labor with a jolt that shook its teeth. The Smith bill, passed by a whopping 252-10-136 vote, would deprive Labor, for the duration, of the lush privileges it has enjoyed since the New Deal came to power...
After this blow, the Axis tank forces could have escaped to the west if they had wanted to. But they did not want to. They chose to stand and fight. For a few days they seemed to be doing a little better than holding their own. But after pausing for repairs and reinforcements, the British resumed the attack, claimed they were forcing the Germans out of the Sidi Rézegh area deeper into the desert...