Word: skirmished
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...liberal government of Dr. Ramón Villeda Morales in order to end what the general described as "flagrant violations of the constitution." López's eight-year rule was notable mostly for the four-day "football war" with its neighbor El Salvador in 1969, a skirmish that started after Honduras claimed that its honor had been insulted during a soccer game between the two countries' national teams...
Jeff Wiegand, playing in the second spot for Harvard, lost the first skirmish in his long battle with Blair Richardson but managed to pull back to carry three consecutive games. Wiegand hurried his shots in the opening game with Richardson, but slowly regained control of the match after the initial setback...
...party will edge back toward the center of the road in terms of both issues and organization changes, with the first skirmish coming over Westwood's retention...
Specifically, Kennecott is trying either to seize legally all copper exports from El Teniente, once they reach foreign ports, or attach the payments that foreign customers make to Chile's state-owned copper company. The opening skirmish in this paper blockade was fought about a month ago, when the company got a Paris court to issue an injunction against payment by two French firms for a $1,400,000 shipment of copper headed from El Teniente to Le Havre aboard a West German freighter. Kennecott claimed that the copper is in effect stolen property...
...honor Pat Nixon. In the largest local antiwar action since the May 1971 attempt to shut down the JFK Federal Building, 8000 demonstrators confronted 300 riot-equipped Boston police outside the Commonwealth Armory. Where the dinner was held. The choreography was depressingly familiar on both sides of the skirmish line...