Word: skirmished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back on a curious scene. The stage was split by two large pillars; on either side stood a robed and hooded chorus of commentators, eerie in green and violet light. The action took place on a center stage created between the pillars, and much of it was violent-a skirmish between Proserpina's lover and the police, an old-fashioned hair-pulling and biting scene between Proserpina and her jealous rival, and near the end, a rooftop death battle between a stranger and Proserpina's evil friends. Musically, Composer Castro offered only a dissonant mosaic. There were vigorous...
...show, browbeat a railroad president to get switching facilities for a Fort Worth factory, telephone New York, bully a tightfisted friend into giving $5,000 to a Carter charity, oversee the decorative detail for the men's lavatories in the new $12 million Amon Carter airport, plot another skirmish with that old devil Dallas, or order gift packages of aged whisky, western hats, smoked turkeys, jeroboams of champagne, jeweled western belts and Countess Mara neckties to be distributed to a wide assortment of friends, celebrities and casual acquaintances...
...Sousse, 800 Arabs armed with sticks of dynamite battled police armed with tear gas. A jaunty French colonel, full-uniformed to campaign ribbons and kepi, attempted to argue with them. Two pistol shots rang out, a heavy club landed on the colonel's unhelmeted head, and when the skirmish was done, an Arab dagger was found plunged into his chest. The colonel walked to his jeep and died. Eight Arabs were killed and 20 wounded in the battle. At Porto Farina, a Tommy gun mowed down one gendarme from behind a cactus hedge. "I've been stationed here...
...Egyptians claimed that Tommies started it, by firing on a truck loaded with Egyptian police; the British charged that Egyptian terrorists began it, by sniping at military engineers. Either way, before the skirmish outside the canal zone city of Suez was ended last week, 16 Egyptians and 13 Britons were dead. So long as increasingly embittered adversaries faced each other, guns in hand, such clashes and more deaths seemed inevitable...
...sublieutenant under Pancho Villa in 1913, Pedro Gomez took slugs in his stomach and in one leg, was left to die after a skirmish in which government forces routed Villa. Before he could die however, he was jerked to his feet in front of a firing squad. The bullets which crashed into his chest merely knocked him down. A sergeant's coup de grace only nicked his ear. The sergeant's cursing captain seized the pistol and sent a .38 bullet into Gomez' head at the hairline-but late that night Gomez still lived...