Word: redoubts
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Harking back to the flagpole sitting days of the roaring twenties," the News said that the five seniors had only taken with them to their redoubt the necessities of life: a portable radio, blankets, a dictionary, and a copy of Boswell's Life of Johnson...
...Battle of Schedule Five of the Senate's tariff war, Old Guardsmen, led by Generalissimo Reed Smoot, chairman of the Finance Committee, had stormed the redoubt of the Democratic-Progressive Republican coalition with a demand for a higher sugar rate. The fighting was fierce and confused, with troopers switching from side to side like the tail of a fly-bitten horse. When the lines were reformed and counted, it was found that the Old Guard had been repulsed...
...prophet are hardy and bold And quite unaccustomed to fear; But of all-the most reckless of life and of limb Was Abdul, the Bulbul Emir! . . . When they wanted a man to encourage the van Or to shout 'Attaboy!' in the rear, Or to storm a redoubt, They always sent out, For Abdul, the Bulbul Emir...
...account of the sloping nature of the terrain any immediate work on the front line has been rendered inadvisable by the water collected in that trench. In the redoubt, second line, support trench and boyaux, however, the ground is reasonably dry, and the damage should be repaired in an afternoon...
...signal. In the first attempt, the intervals were unsatisfactory, and the movement was repeated. The next time, the proper 50-yard intervals were maintained and the platoons rushed as far as the road in a close line of squad columns. Here they were reformed, and the advance towards the redoubt began...