Word: skirmished
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hope it will continue." Despite their protests over Western "interference," Vance added, Soviet leaders have shown "a continuing deep and abiding interest" in reaching agreements on arms control, trade and other issues with the U.S. Western analysts, and diplomats generally, agree that the dispute over human rights resembles a skirmish on a long cease-fire line. Says one Kremlin watcher: "There does seem to be a fairly sharp distinction between this kind of tit-for-tatism and issues like SALT...
This conclusion, inconclusive and yet fast on the heels of the ultimate skirmish of psychological cruelty, leaves us with half a film, for one presumes that after throwing her hands up at suicide Mrs. Elliot will have to come to terms. The portrait of her, ending here, strikes one as perverse and, although meant to arouse sympathy, pretty unsympathetic. The children, at least, might provide Roberts with a vocation and some joy--even Finney has grown to appreciate them, and remarks perfectly "I'm happier with them because I'm happier without them." Yet she declares herself ready to drag...
...Integration has a way to go in the South, but the ugly confrontations of the '50s and '60s, the bombings and Klan revivals, the school riots and statehouse harangues seem as remote as the Dred Scott decision. It is up North, in staid Boston, that the races clash and skirmish. Little Rock, Ark., scene of former Governor Orval Faubus' strident segregationist harangues, has thoroughly integrated its schools...
...Pennsylvania driver laughed, moved his car closer and thereby ended another skirmish in the word between the states. Along the interstates, and more often away from them, old Southern expressions like "a tad"-an indefinable little bit-survive...
Paine did write occasionally on political questions, but it was the news of last spring's skirmish at Lexington and Concord that turned him into the fiery prophet of the new America he saw taking form. Says he: "It was the cause of America that made me an author. I neither read books nor studied other people's opinions?I thought for myself." He adds that he has not earned a shilling from the huge popularity of his pamphlet (under his arrangement with Printer Robert Bell, Paine's half of the profits was to be donated to buy mittens...