Word: skirmished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...general, Dwight Eisenhower's spring offensive had rolled through Congress with remarkable success; foreign aid authorization, tax bills, even reciprocal trade and defense reorganization were in remarkably good shape. But last week, in a minor skirmish, Ike got sandbagged into an embarrassing retreat by three Algerian-general types who are supposed to be on his side: Minority Leader William Knowland. New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, Illinois' Everett McKinley ("Old Bear Grease") Dirksen...
...thump of five military bands, the army that had fought two wars and waged many a border skirmish wound its way back without incident to the Mediterranean plain. In a ringing, patriarchal oration, B-G reviewed its triumphs: "The state arose not through the decision of the U.N. but through the determined will of the Jewish people and the heroism of its precious sons and daughters...
...book's leading characters are, on the face of it, five heroes and one coward. Major Thomas Thorn-stocky, undistinguished, middle-aged-is the coward. Dur ing his first skirmish, he had crept trembling into a culvert. Partly in deference to his dead father, a crop-thwacking cavalryman, Thorn was not court-martialed. Instead, with thickly sabered irony, he was exiled from his outfit to become a writer of awards for the Medal of Honor. Without cynicism, Commanding General John J. Pershing (in an imaginary conversation) explained to Thorn the pressing need for medal winners: with U.S. entanglement...
...order if it is flouted. It is possible, indeed probable, that situations such as the present one will arise where the use of force will be necessary. And in some of these instances, the few outbreaks of violence which occurred in Little Rock may appear like an in significant skirmish before a battle of major proportions...
With Congress gone home for the year, the great Battle of the Budget was over, the last ax blow struck, the last oratorical volley fired. But a postbattle skirmish broke out last week as President Eisenhower disputed congressional estimates of how much Capitol Hill really cut from his hacked-at 1958 budget...