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noun
The burrow in the ground where a fox lives.
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A lieutenant took over, and when his radio stopped working, Mr. Rein darted from foxhole to foxhole.
At some point last year, Manfred was quoted as having said baseball would fight the umpires "from foxhole to foxhole".
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American soldiers saw signs of hasty exits everywhere: stripped-off uniforms lying next to foxholes, abandoned tanks and artillery strewn through farm fields and palm groves.
From gym showers to foxholes, over and over again, it is shown that physical proximity does not necessarily lead to attraction and intimacy.
I got to the foxhole and the coxswain said: 'We're all going to get killed!' Another man said: 'Don't worry, we'll get out of here.' I prayed to myself hard.
Like a culinary Colonel Kurtz returning to the front line after seven years in exile, Marco Pierre White started the series looking more suited to a foxhole in the Tet Offensive than a TV studio in west London.
During World War II he served in the Army on Gen. Douglas MacArthur's staff in the Philippines and was wounded when a Japanese mortar exploded next to his foxhole.
Apolo Anton Ohno may have hurtled the heretofore marginal curiosity known as short-track speedskating into the Olympic mainstream Saturday night, when he scrambled sideways across the finish line, like a soldier to a foxhole, for a well-earned silver medal.
For Mr. Bush, it was especially useful to call Mr. Powell out of his foxhole to underscore the lengths to which this president has gone to give the United Nations a chance to live up to its mandate to enforce its many disarmament resolutions on Iraq.
At 4 00 am on the morning of January 2, Viet Cong scouts around the hamlets of Ap Bac and Ap Tan Thoi reported hearing the sounds of truck and boat engines, so Hoang issued an alert order which prompted his troops to pick up their weapons and hurry to their foxholes.
With the troops dug into fighting positions, Kapaun would dash back and forth along the line, jumping from one foxhole to another to check on the men, pray with them and tend to the wounded.
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