Word: skirmished
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cornell game was more of an exhibition skirmish. The Crimson defense, which can be taken for one legitimate touchdown a game but little else, proved early that it could stop the Big Red charge when it so desired. It so desired when Cornell reached the Harvard 27 on the opening drive of the game, when the Big Red advanced on the Crimson 14 right before the half, and on all but one occasion in the final quarter, when Cornell scored its lone points of a winter-like afternoon...
...Pont estate also owned 52% of Florida National-but in 1966 Congress forbade charitable trusts to hold interests in both banking and nonbanking businesses. Disposition of the estate's stock in the bank holding company then became the cause of a skirmish between Ball and Fellow Trustees Dent and William B. Mills, a former bank president jr a long, complicated fight, Ball a few months ago found a way to meet the letter of the law without losing control-the r individual owners of the bank holding company's stock-including Ball himself -voted to buy the estate...
Richard S. Allen received several wounds, the most serious to his arm, in a skirmish shortly after lunch when prisoners were out of their cells. He was taken to Norwood Hospital, where he was treated and released...
...students and young workers descended on Bologna 20,000 strong. Most were dressed in faded jeans, and T shirts or windbreakers; some had daubed their faces with paint, imitating American Indians on the warpath. They surged through the graceful colonnaded streets into the vast Piazza Maggiore for a first skirmish with their avowed enemy: the Italian Communist Party (P.C.I.). As the throngs approached Bologna's huge Renaissance-style city hall, a handful of middle-aged Communist apparatchiks emerged to confront them. "We have been fighting to change things in Italy since 1944," a party militant told a bearded young...
Publicly, Egypt insisted that its bitter four-day mini-war with Libya (TIME, Aug. 1) had been no more than a minor border skirmish. A series of frontier infiltrations and espionage attempts had forced Cairo to teach Libya's erratic strongman, Muammar Gaddafi, a lesson in good manners. Rather like a stern uncle rebuking a wayward nephew, President Anwar Sadat described Gaddafi as "a second Napoleon" and "just a child"-inspiring Tripoli spokesmen to dismiss the Egyptian President as "a Zionist tool...