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  • Bruce Wayne became a detective and master of hand-to hand combat.

    Comic Book Alphabet of Cool – I | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008

  • They're engaged in some hand-to - hand political combat.

    CNN Transcript Aug 27, 2008 2008

  • For weeks, she had held it, smooth and cool, in her right hand-to school, during lunch, back at their house, during dinner.

    Archive 2007-12-01 2007

  • Just be careful not to replace smoking with another hand-to mouth addiction.

    Extreme thoughts... Terry Nelson 2007

  • For weeks, she had held it, smooth and cool, in her right hand-to school, during lunch, back at their house, during dinner.

    Elegiacal 2007

  • ‘I was only once in the hand-to – hand combat and thousands of times in the dream afterwards’-wrote Julia Drunina, the medical officer in the WWII (she was 19 then) and a Russian poet.

    The Armed Corpses 2007

  • PERRY: Some never even got word of the storm, like Taslina, in the best of times feeding her children, literally, a daily hand-to - mouth existence.

    CNN Transcript Nov 19, 2007 2007

  • He was, himself, attacked by an insurgent, engaged in hand-to - hand combat, as the insurgent grabbed him by the neck, shouted to his fellow Marines, "Watch his hand."

    CNN Transcript Nov 10, 2006 2006

  • "We have forgotten the use of the bow, in years of hand-to - hand fighting, but we can learn again."

    The Conquering Sword of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • "We have forgotten the use of the bow, in years of hand-to - hand fighting, but we can learn again."

    The Conquering Sword Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

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