Word: maule
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...British, their strategy was to maul Rommel as they advanced, to lash at him in unexpected places-and they probably had a surprise up their sleeve. At best, superior Allied air power would be able to disrupt superior Axis ground power and give Allied infantry, artillery and tanks a fighting chance to turn the tide. At worst, the British would be routed, hurled out of Alexandria and Suez, and the Allies driven from the whole Mediterranean theater...
...Maul. In New Orleans, a cat scratched Mrs. Julian Hebert, who grabbed a revolver, gave chase, tripped over her son. The gun went off, shot the son in the knee. Mrs. Hebert threw the gun into the back yard, where it went off again, shot Mrs. Hebert in the foot. The cat escaped...
...mangy Hawaiian port of Kahului, a Japanese submarine crept closer toward shore in the dusk. A gun crew swarmed from her conning tower and gathered about the deck gun. Kahului, 90 miles by airline from Honolulu on the island of Maul, was going to get its first taste...
Four rounds later the rapier began to sting. Young Billy began to maul the Big Boy. He beat him to the punch, socked him as though he had a policeman's billy in his mitt...
...feel a desire to speak words of good will to you, as chief of the Italian nation, across what seems to be a swiftly widening gulf. . . . We can, no doubt, inflict grievous injuries upon one another and maul each other cruelly and darken the Mediterranean with our strife. If you so decree, it must be so. But I declare that I have never been the enemy of Italian greatness, nor ever at heart the foe of the Italian lawgiver. . . . Down the ages, above all other calls, comes the cry that the joint heirs of Latin and Christian civilization must...