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Word: breastworks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...leader, in this queer obstacle race, was a big black fellow, knotty of muscle, sleek of thigh. He leaped a seven-foot wall, writhed easily hand-over-hand up a rope, scrambled over a log breastwork, pawed up one side of a big rope web and down the other, snaked through a culvert pipe and broad-jumped a trench...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - NAVY: Black Sailors | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

...Stamford, Conn., residents formed The North Stamford Breastwork & Overhead Menace Committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Attack from Within | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

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