Word: skirmished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What was left of the CRIMSON board rallied around to wage a torrid scoop- skirmish with the rebel sensationalists. The "100 Days War" finally came to an end by June when the Journal-ists had had it financially and academically; the victorious Crime emerged a far more modern and readable paper than it had been before the schism...
...cold-war skirmish was fought last week on the German television front. The Communists got their East zone transmitter on the air first, just in time for a heavyhanded salute to Stalin's birthday, featuring such numbing fare as a film called Young Constructors of Socialism and a forum show with the jawbreaking title Tribune for German Patriots in the Fight Against the Enslavery and War Policy of the American West German Monopoly Masters. Trumpeted a Red spokesman: "East zone TV will be a great educational force untainted by the frivolous bourgeois influence of the West...
...story: "Discrimination always makes me mad. But this was different. This made me scared. All they knew about America was what they knew about McPherson. For the first time I really saw how important little things, a long way off, can be. We had to fight a one-town skirmish away out here in the middle of the United States...
...Measurement. Last week the Nigerians-some of them in native costume-went caroling with the other college students, wound up at Rozella's house to help her decorate the Christmas tree. Elsewhere in McPherson there were no miracles to report, but Rozella's skirmish was gaining ground. At the Ritz theater the boys can now have any seat in the house. Luther Palmer and the three other merchants have promised to ask the Chamber of Commerce to look into the barbershop situation. (But the boys were still going 35 miles away to Hutchinson to get their hair...
...Northwest, where the public v. private power battle has raged for years, Bonneville Power Administrator Paul J. Raver has been right in the middle of many a skirmish. Last week Raver made a suggestion to the Bonneville Regional Advisory Council which, coming from the area's top federal power man, was startling indeed. Said he: the Federal Government ought to clear out of the power business in the Northwest, turn over the job to an "interstate" agency...