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single shot

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single-shot

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My most splendid campaign was that of March 20; not a single shot was fired. Napoleon Bonaparte

My successor, John Kerry, and President Obama got a deal that put a lid on Iran's nuclear program without firing a single shot. That's diplomacy. That's coalition-building. That's working with other nations. Hillary Clinton

Suddenly a single shot on the extreme left rang out on the clear morning air, followed quickly by several others, and the whole line pushed rapidly forward through the brush. John Gibbon

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