Word: dueling
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Melodramatically salvation heaves in sight. A German supply ship and an Allied ship stage a shelling duel. The German ship is sunk...
Before dawn the big guns around Dover suddenly thundered. Their loads of steel and high explosive arched toward the German-held coast of France, some 20 miles away. German heavy guns growled back in a monstrous duel. It was like a rumbling overture to invasion...
...armor kept Moscow worried. The loss of Kharkov in similar circumstances last March was still fresh in everyone's mind; would Kharkov's fate befall Kiev? But by a prodigious effort, General Nikolai Vatutin halted the German advance. As in the summer, Russian artillery won its duel with German armor...
Among those who have previously spoken at meetings of the Post-War Council are Kurt Singer, former leader in the German underground and author of "Duel for the Northland," who advocated permanent military occupation of Germany by the Allies, Senator Pepper, who spoke in favor of a world organization to maintain a peace backed up by the power of the United Nations, and Professor Gaetano Salvemini who criticized Allied political conduct in Italy. The meeting is to be open to the public...
Thus was written the next-to-last chapter in the 36-year-long duel for power between Manuel Quezon and Sergio Osmeña, who have fought together for Philippine independence and against each other for prestige at home...