Word: skirmished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...struggle over the postwar air was still in the skirmish stage...
...came abreast of the Navy patrol vessel marking our line of departure, the assault waves bunched up and shells fell in among them. We needed no order. We broke column, went into a skirmish position and throbbed toward shore like so many racing boats, close together, with motors roaring and spray flying...
...surrender will mean immediate demands on U.S. production of other goods than fighting materiel: clothing, farm machinery, steel rails, power plants, machine tools, sewer pipes, telegraph lines, locomotives, and many other peacetime items needed to make Italy an Allied base. The Battle for Italy was not a skirmish, but a main action for the decision. The U.S.-perhaps overconfidently-awaited the verdict...
...sound of firing from the port. Denmark's tiny Navy was committing suicide. Some were trying to escape to Sweden, some were scuttled by their crews where they lay. German planes caught and sank at least one that fled, but nine reached Sweden. There was a skirmish at the Royal Barracks. Danes and Germans fell in a clash at the Amalienborg, where some of the royal family watched and waited. The battle was heard in Sweden, 20 miles across the Ore Sund...
...Skirmish. As yet, Wendell Willkie has not formally jumped into the 1944 race. He came closest last week, announcing that he would certainly enter the Illinois Presidential primary if Chicago Tribune Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick is also a candidate. (Colonel McCormick had been proposed for the nomination by a Chicago isolationist group...