Word: clashingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Defense and "made signs against the army," then issued an announcement warning that the "events threaten national unity." At this signal, pro-government demonstrators themselves took to the streets yelling "Bayar, back to your cave," and ransacked Justice Party headquarters. In Istanbul, cops tried to prevent a bloody clash by opening both pontoon bridges across the Golden Horn, thus separating pro-and anti-Bayar groups...
...major battle is a time for pageantry as much as fighting; a conflict is an all-day affair, beginning in early morning (see the picture above) with with a bloodless clash of small groups. At this time, individuals in battle finery prance about and exchange taunts and insults. Later in the morning, reinforcements from the outlying villages join the initial parties and a few arrows are shot casually, but the battle remains essentially verbal. Gradually, as the day wears on, more arrows and spears are thrown; warriors on both sides are wounded and finally someone is killed. When this happens...
Geographic isolation has proved to be one of the major formative factors of the character of Mount Holyoke, and the clash of urban and urbane girls with the "country college" setting has been one of the greatest sources of students' discontent with the school...
...last two Harvard-Yale contests were decided by only one game; in 1961, the Elis came out ahead 5-4, but last year the varsity won "a homeric victory" when John Francis came back in the last match with a dramatic win. A capacity crowd will watch today's clash...
Morris, Hetherington Clash...