Word: skirmished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...harbor any illusions. Like all decent men, he was glad that "the armistice had ended the killing. But when I signed the armistice, I knew, of course, that it was not over-that the struggle against Communism would not be over in my lifetime. The Korean war was a skirmish, a bloody, costly skirmish, fought on the perimeter of the free world...
Until very recently, Germany was the one nation simply unable to beat any European nation. There was of course, 1870. But several pictures have pegged that in its true light: the first minor skirmish of World War I. Now the nation seems to be getting stronger; in The Devil Makes Three and The Search they help Americans beat both Nazis and Russians...
...Damned Impertinence." The skirmish was the one bright spot in an increasingly dark picture. The war against the Mau Mau gets worse, not better. A joint Tory-Laborite parliamentary delegation returned to England and reported sharply last week that Kenya's emergency is fast spreading, partly because the colonial government "has not yet secured the full support, loyalty and understanding of the majorities in all the racial communities...
...route to the presidential handshake . . . despite their correct evening attire, their long white gloves." Added Columnist Gordon later: "We might as well go in galoshes and tweed hats." The Battles of Protocol. A late-in-life blonde with the temper of a redhead, Columnist Gordon has fought many a skirmish before on the field of protocol...
...another six weeks. Then, the recommendation will go to the Senate Rules Committee, which will report to the Senate. Unless Iraud is clearly shown, a majority of Senators almost certainly will stand by Colleague Chavez. On one other point, however, there was even greater certainty: having won a skirmish, old (70) Cavalryman Hurley is sure to dig in his spurs and ride harder than ever...