Word: skirmished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that point, the segregationists clearly were carrying Clinton's critical day. But they had won only a skirmish...
Teenage Rebel (20th Century-Fox) is not nearly so bad a movie as the title-with its overtones of juvenile delinquency -makes it seem. Adapted from last season's Broadway near miss, A Roomful of Roses (TIME, Oct. 31, 1955), the movie describes a skirmish in the unending teenagers v. parents' revolution. The rebel, in this case, is the maladjusted daughter of divorced parents. At 15, the youngster visits her remarried mother (Ginger Rogers) for the first time in eight years. Her mother and stepfather (Michael Rennie) sympathetically figure that the hostile, resentful girl is merely a little...
There are things more cruel than the sea, British Novelist Nicholas Monsarrat has decided. Having established his rank as a topnotch fiction craftsman in The Cruel Sea (1951), Monsarrat has now made a troubled but effective literary landfall. His second big novel tells of a bloody skirmish in a sector of the no man's land that stretches between white and black along the length of Africa...
...Negroes passing through, blocked traffic, swamped and demoralized the local police. Next night the showdown came. Forty citizens of Clinton were sworn in to help the eight Clinton cops in a vigilante "peace guard." They armed themselves with "everything we can get our hooks on," and formed a skirmish line before the mob in the courthouse square. "Lock them up if they give you any lip," ordered the submachine gun-toting commander of the vigilantes, a lawyer and paratroop veteran of Korea's Heartbreak Ridge named Leo W. Grant Jr. Said one of Grant's citizens: "Hell...
...night by the clangorous bell-ringing of a white-hating rabble-rouser and finds his inflamed flock already there, armed with guns and ready to shoot it out with a lynch mob of whites that is cruising around the bottom land. The Preacher heads off an ugly racial skirmish with an impromptu sermon: "Whether old Abe Lincoln live and die in vain depend on you ... I know well's anybody, we got fight back now and then [but] everybody got find their own freedom. Everybody got lead their own selves outen the wilderness . . . Me-I'm goin home...