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holding off

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Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be. Kurt Vonnegut

It's a bad business. There is no firm front. We have separate strongpoints in which our units are holding off the attacks of superior enemy forces. Communications with them are weak. Kliment Voroshilov

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