Word: skirmished
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...question, Mrs. Thatcher had breakfasted at Claridges with Henry Kissinger (who pronounced her "quite a girl"). Then she went to the House of Commons for her first serious parliamentary skirmish with Prime Minister Harold Wilson, who had just returned from a visit with Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev in Moscow and was feeling ebullient. Such dealings with the Soviets were fine, declared Mrs. Thatcher, provided they "never lull this House or this country into a sense of false security." In an unsubtle reference to the Tory leader's admitted lack of expertise in foreign affairs, Wilson condescendingly retorted: "Some...
...Even after a supply of food and gifts arrived by plane, they remained dissatisfied and agitated. Early next morning, a fierce war cry brought Figueiredo rushing out of camp. As he approached Comprido, the Indian leader, he was fatally struck in the chest by two arrows. Before the skirmish was over and the Indians had retreated back into the bush, three other government officials lay dead...
...constantly dwindling number of radicals have demanded for the past five years. While the radicals may have been pleased by the belated official confirmation of their stand, the visiting committee report may be one of the final ironies of the most recent radical-orthodox struggle, and not the first skirmish...
...given up their interest in gaining control of Iran's oilfields some day. Iran also has an inimical and testy neighbor in Iraq, which has been massively supplied with Soviet weaponry. The forces of the two states frequently clash head-on along the border. In the most recent skirmish last spring, Iran lost 42 men in a fierce firefight but killed at least 39 Iraqis in return...
...heated skirmish broke out yesterday in the Yard when an apparently mentally disturbed flautist struck a University policeman...