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to keep running

6

firearms; missile; projectile weapon

1

shooting; sniping

19

security police; special police; special; TV special; 78-rpm record; standard play (VHS recording speed); SP

1

executive

1

servant; menial

1

rushing into; breaking into; storming; plunging into (war, etc.); embarking on (a new venture)

1

support; help; backing; covering (from enemy attack); protection

4

to pull up; to drag up; to increase; to raise (e.g. taxes); to withdraw; to leave; to promote (someone to a higher position)

1

fumigation; smoking (out)

1

they; those guys

4

with all due respect; if I may make bold to ask

5

by nature; naturally; by birth; since birth; in one's (entire) life

1

to shoot or fire off an arrow

1

defense; defence; fielding

1

one's person; around one's person

6

to disable; to override

1

taste (in goods, etc.); manners; etiquette; modesty; restraint; knowledge, experience (of the arts, etc.)

4

passing away; dying; death

1

target

23

fear of death

2

(corrugated) cardboard; cardboard box; carton

2

one box

1

boasting of one's strength

1

full stomach; filling one's stomach; eating one's fill; complete; total; full

2

school trip; field trip; excursion; long walk; excursion (on foot)

2

departure; leaving; setting off

10

to close one's eyes partly; to squint; to smile with one's whole face; to smile sweetly (at); to look fondly (at)

4

ambush; lying in wait for an ambush

6

carrying in (esp. heavy objects, artwork, furniture); bringing in; taking in

1

slope

1

(not) even a little bit; (not) in the slightest; (not) one bit

14

to soothe and humor; to coax

1

to burst into flames; to fire (of a gun); to fan a fire with one's breath; to breathe fire; to spit fire

5

shoji paper

1

giving one's name; self-introduction; announcing one's name, rank, lineage, etc. (of a samurai on the battlefield); name given to male members of the nobility and samurai class upon coming of age; Japanese kanji reading used in names

3

execution

23

deployment; spreading out; dispersal

1

to scurry home; to run home; to fly back

6

(time of) emergency; (in) event of emergency; (in) case of emergency

1

strict prohibition; ban; interdiction

2

to make good one's escape; to get away; to outrun; to hold on (and win); to win narrowly

6

the 36 (ancient Chinese military) strategies (of which the last resort was said to be beating a retreat)

1

he that fights and runs away may live to fight another day; discretion is the better part of valor; (lit.) fleeing is winning

1

to do someone in; to bump someone off

4

chase; pursuit; tracking; following up; tracing

5

to cut off the retreat

1

king; monarch; ruler; champion

15

to stand in the way; to bar someone's way; to block the way

6

flight; desertion; escape

3