Word: clashingly
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...aimed their weapons at each other and pulled the triggers. Iranian speedboats, which fired first, missed an unarmed U.S. Army observation helicopter. Two U.S. gunship choppers reacted with lethal swiftness, sinking one of the attacking boats and setting two others ablaze. A fourth escaped. Although hardly a major military clash, the fiery exchange on a moonlit night in the gulf last week ratchetted the hostilities yet another notch toward a real but undeclared state of limited...
Though there were occasional sharp exchanges,the tenor of the clash was relaxed, with thecandidates stripping to shirt sleeves because ofthe heat from television lights, and occasionallyjoking with each other during the time alloted forthem to question one another
...Powers Act this week. Should the Democratic leadership make good on its threat to push the measure through, allies in the Middle East will (justifiably) lose their emerging confidence in U.S. resolve. And the Administration's vehement opposition to the act signals the coming of a destructive constitutional clash with the legislative branch should the measure pass--which would be a time when such a confrontation could do U.S. foreign policy grave harm...
...career. While still a student at Temple University, he got his first taste of performing by doing jokes and impressions at parties. Soon he was picking up nightclub gigs in Philadelphia and New York. Juggling comedy stints with school and sports grew more difficult, and the inevitable clash came during his junior year. The football team (for which Cosby played second- string fullback) had to travel out of town for a Saturday game; Cosby had booked himself into a $225 club engagement on Friday night. He sought permission to join the team late, but the school's athletic director refused...
...battle between the two--dubbed council wars by local comics who portrayed Vrdolyak as a Darth Vader and Washington as a Luke Skywalker who destroyed the "machine star" by hitting at its core, the mayor's office--had its final clash this past year when Washington showed that he had enough political clout to maintain his Democratic endorsement for Mayor. He then handily won the general election, defeating a Republican and Vrdolyak...