Word: skirmished
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...discoveries so far have revealed fresh details. Hundreds of shells from the troopers' Springfield carbines and the Indians' Henry .44-cal. rifles have been numbered, bagged and plotted on maps. The shells have established previously unknown skirmish lines and indicated that by battle's end Indians were using Army ammunition taken from dead soldiers...
...skirmish in the war between CBS and Westmoreland
...controversy began several weeks ago when B.C. Captain Martin Clark quit the team after B.C.'s March 14 win over St. Joseph's in the N.I.T. tournament Clark's announcement came several weeks after a skirmish with B.C. Coach Gary Williams in the locker room after defeated B.C.'s regular season victory over Syracuse...
...that of a youth. The Iranian soldier had apparently died of a head wound suffered in the battle to keep Al Beida, now little more than a ghost town of rubble, from slipping back into Iraqi hands. He would have remained an unknown casualty of an equally unknown skirmish in the Persian Gulf war, if the Iraqi information officer who was leading foreign journalists on a tour of the front had not stopped to pick up a 6½-in. by 4½-in.. book found with the dead soldier. He then handed it to Iranian-born Journalist Helene...
...Ziyang's U.S. tour in January, was meant to help heal wounds that had opened in U.S.-Chinese economic relations and to prepare the way for President Reagan's arrival in Peking at the end of April. Prodded by American manufacturers, Washington set off a 1983 trade skirmish by freezing imports of Chinese textiles at the previous year's levels after talks on a new accord broke down. The People's Republic, which did not begin welcoming U.S. business on a large scale until 1979, responded by halting purchases of U.S. soybeans, cotton and synthetic fibers...