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• s  being at close quarters
  hand-to-hand fighting

• Self-taught in swordsmanship, hand-to-hand combat and making bombs from clay pots, gunpowder and tar, Smith fought as a young mercenary in wars across France, the Netherlands and .
• The essential problem in Rowling's books is how to love in the face of death, and her characters must arrive at the solution all on their own, hand-to-hand, at street level, with .
• Every combat is even-sided and complex and can be waged in multiple ways, using an arsenal of long- and short-range weapons, plus grenades and hand-to-hand moves.

News & Articles

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• Man dies in police custody after allegedly choking on golf ball-sized bag of cocaine during struggle with cops
  A man died while in police custody last night when he choked a golf ball-sized bag of cocaine after struggling with cops in the Bronx, authorities said. Bronx narcotics cops allegedly saw Jose Muniz, 52, make a hand-to-hand drug deal in front a Norwood bodega on Jerome Avenue at around...
  June 20, 2013 - New York Post

Quotes

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• Jim Calhoun in USA Today
  They're as tough a team physically as you'll play,Calhoun said of the Wildcats. "Tonight was hand-to-hand combat."
• Thomas Jane in NBC 11.com
  I did 90 percent of my own stunts and I'm really proud of that,Jane said. "I did a lot of training and worked with a lot of great guys to get me there. There was weight, hand-to-hand and weapons training. I had a terrific team guiding me...
• Calipari in Chattanooga Times Free Press
  What I told the guys was it was going to be a war,Calipari said afterward. "I watched the tape from last year and it was a war. It was not basketball - it was hand-to-hand combat."