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front line; forefront

4

to take command; to give direction

1

to fight to the bitter end

2

to disdain; to look down on; to make light of; to hold in contempt; to scorn; to despise

6

to come near; to let someone approach; to bring near; to bring together; to deliver (opinion, news, etc.); to send (e.g. a letter); to let someone drop by

6

smelling of men; reeking of male body odor; manly; macho

2

elder brother; one's senior; older man; man older than oneself

4

tender; warm; meticulous; detailed; deep (of a colour); thick (e.g. fog)

2

certain; some kind of; some sort of; of sorts

2

ground; crust (earth); foundation (building, etc.); base; constituency; power base

6

to miss (doing); to fail (to do)

1

exhausting work; hard work; severe duty

1

downheartedly; dejectedly; dispiritedly; despondently

13

focusing on only one thing; obsessively; intensely; selfish; self-serving

4

manual labor; manual labour; toil; Labour Party

6

recovery from exhaustion

1

stability; steadiness; equilibrium

4

sound sleep; good sleep; quiet sleep

2

metabolism; renewal; regeneration; replacing the old with the new

1

promotion; acceleration; encouragement; facilitation; spurring on

2

beautiful skin

1

loss; damage; harm; disadvantage; handicap; drawback

1

going crazy; losing one's temper; snapping; sound of a stretched string snapping

10

to resign; to retire; to quit; to leave (one's job, etc.)

3

it's OK to ...; it's best to ...; it's alright to ...

2

person in charge (including a supervisory role for other staff); person responsible for ...; responsible party; supervisor; manager

2

to grasp tightly

16

to begin to tremble

2

you

8

to kneel

14

note; memo; memorandum

1

please look at it

6

briskly; smartly; promptly; clearly; lucidly

3

bow (salute, greeting)

10

to be satisfied

2

betterment; improvement; kaizen (Japanese business philosophy of continuous improvement)

9

a few years later

2

hard (life); tough (world)

1

frustrated (over a failure, humiliation or injustice); annoyed; chagrined; (bitterly) disappointed; bitter; vexed

20

to scheme; to plan; to play a trick; to invent; to conspire; to frame up

4

to give a warning; to remind (a person) of

2

an inch ahead; the immediate future

3

to stick to; to cling to; to adhere to

2

sludge; slime; chemical ooze

4

many thousands

6

counter for occurrences; a time; an instance; inning (baseball); round; episode; chapter

19

10,000; ten thousand; myriad; everything; all; (arch.) various

28

to gaze long at

4

indelible scene of one's childhood; earliest remembered scene

3

roaring

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