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Interposed - Michael Mitiska
 * > Name: || Michael Mitiska ||
 * > Word: || Interposed ||
 * > Source: || //Savage Wars of Peace// by Max Boot, "Butcher and Bolt," A Pack of Boys, pg. 20 ||
 * > Appropriate Definition: || Verb; to step in between parties at variance **:** intervene ||
 * > Definition URL: || [] ||
 * > Context Sentences: || The two commanders fell to the deck grappling with each other, Decatur on top. Another Tripolitan tried to hit Decatur on the head with a scimitar, but a seaman already wounded in both arms **interposed** his own skull instead and saved Decatur’s life. In the next instant, the Tripoltian captain flipped his weaker adversity and pinned him on the deck with is left hand while with his right hand he prepared to plunge home a //yataghan// (short knife). ||

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