Word: skirmished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mediate the undeclared war, but Turkey was fast being pulled out of its pro-British orientation, and the British, mistrusting Moslem mediation of a Moslem vexation, turned the offer down. If the Iraq Incident was not the beginning of the Holy War, at least it was a Holy Skirmish...
Preparedness is a dead issue and the time for action has arrived. Dartmouth's headed south from the hill country armed to the teeth with a brigade of runners that has already turned back a Harvard onslaught in a mid-winter skirmish. It was, in bare facts, the worst track defeat the Crimson has suffered at Green hands...
...remember. Unfortunately these prominent figures do not, like Noah's menagerie, come in pairs. There are many controversial speakers, to whom we listen in order to disagree with them, whom a Political Union dare not sponsor as a lecturer, and cannot persuade to join in a round-table word skirmish...
When the men in the Plotting Room have spotted the exact location of every ship at sea-some 600 independents and hundreds more in convoy-the charts are taken to another room where convoy experts fight a paper skirmish, determining the best routes for each ship to pursue in the light of information on where U-boats, enemy raiders and planes are operating. By the afternoon the plotted charts and recommended courses are forwarded to the naval staff for study. Then directions are teletyped to the secret headquarters, in a west-coast port, of the man whom Britons consider...
...Easter time is a historical as well as a religious holiday. On Good Friday, 1014, King Brian Boru lost his life smashing the Vikings, who for two centuries had raided Ireland. On Easter Monday, 1916 (one day behind schedule) began the brief, bitter, bloody rising that was the first skirmish in the rebellion that led to the Irish Free State...