Word: inch-by-inch
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ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, NORTH AFRICA--Powerful German counter-blows have dislodged the British from briefly-held hill positions southwest of Bizerte in an all-day battle emphasizing that the high stakes in Tunisia will be bitterly contested inch-by-inch, official reports said tonight...
...didn't have much defense in depth, so I decided we would have to pull out." Score: about 20 Japs killed, many more wounded; U.S. casualties, none. His charge was a minute action, but in the mosaic of New Guinea warfare it was typical of the bitter inch-by-inch, day-by-day battle to throw out the Japs...
...this arbitration could have been got through in a day. The prime point, wage reduction, developed into a bitter, inch-by-inch retreat of the employes' representatives...