Word: skirmished
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fighting broke out at the Doshan Tappeh air force base in eastern Tehran; it was provoked by a skirmish between airmen supporting Khomeini and others loyal to the government. The Khomeini contingent was reinforced by thousands of civilians who rushed to the area, in what appeared to be a preplanned move. Joining them later were 8,000 leftists of the "Saihkal Marxist Group," which takes its name from a Caspian village seized by the Communists 14 years ago. As the crowds swirled into the area, leaders with bullhorns announced that men with military experience could pick up weapons...
Judge William G. Young said yesterday in a memorandum accompanying his decision that it resolved a "small but not inconsequential skirmish on a much larger battlefield...
...publishers do not seem to be in a compromising mood. Besides, even if the pressmen were to survive this skirmish, the papers would no doubt be laying for them next time, and papers in other cities might eventually join the war. The pressmen are in a sense the last casualties in the newspaper industry's long, wrenching and inevitable shift from benign, family-dominated management to the more bloodless, efficient and profit-minded imperatives that other industries adopted decades ago. The pressmen, meanwhile, will continue to resist?and grow old. The News's Frank Boylan endured the rigors...
...might be conducted between opponents who cannot see each other in a pitch-black room. The movement is wondrously intricate, breathtakingly quick-and hugely comic. In another excerpt, called Monkey Makes Havoc in Heaven, the stage is filled with men, tumbling, bounding, flailing at one another in a skirmish between the forces of a Peer Gyntish Monkey King and a Jade Emperor whose court has been invaded by the delightfully wicked, white-faced simian. Martial art is transformed into high art as the lightning-fast conflict develops...
...subject of strikes seems to be taboo among the kitchen workers--at least when outsiders are within earshot. Thelma shies away from discussing a skirmish between kitchen employees and the University a few years ago, and she quickly asserts that the incident was just a little misunderstanding that had been all straightened out. On the other hand, John says, "we can't strike. It's not in the contract. We had a big argument about that." Most kitchen workers decline to talk about the possibility of a kitchen workers' strike similar to the one at Yale last fall. Union issues...