Word: duel
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...author of "Duel for the Northland" asserted that the Norwegian underground movement was extremely strong, keeping in constant contact with the British. He added that most of the underground publications were edited by college students and that they were printed on very thin paper so that they could be swallowed by the reader if he were accosted by the Germans...
...shells flew over with a quick whistle and fell a few yards away, by the corner of the building. In the opposite direction, through the grapevines, I could see one of our heavy guns coming up the road. So this gun and the tanks were about to duel at close range, and we were right in the middle...
...Japs, who have been bombed in the Kuriles within the last two and a half months, were better prepared for this one. Heavy anti-aircraft fire let loose and 25 Jap fighters rose to intercept the U.S. force of Mitchells and Liberators that roared over. In a 50-minute duel over the northernmost Jap base of Paramoshiri ten, possibly 13, of the Japs were shot down...
...after; and he was determined to get her. While calm Miss Bergman sat in Stockholm flicking off her wrist offers which nearly every actress in Europe would have rolled over and begged for, she reckoned without David O. Selznick. In that failure of reckoning began a sort of duel, and a sort of wooing, as rare in Hollywood as victorious talent...
...duel was fought in Texas by Alexander Shott and John E. Nott. Nott was better to be Shott, than Nott. There was shot and Shott was not. In the case it is a rumor that Nott was not Shott, but Shott a vows that he was not, which proves either that the shot Shott shot at Nott was not shot or that Nott was that not with standing. It may be made to appear on trial that the shot Shott shot shot Nott or, as accidents with firearms are frequent, it may be possible that the shot Shott shot shot...