Word: skirmished
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...office--by nature quieter and more deliberate still--was thrown headlong into the festivities by virtue of a rule that withdrew the scholarships of any student who was placed on probation. In late 1968 a small group staged a demonstration in Paine Hall, a sort of pre-skirmish to the larger battles to follow. One of those placed on probation was the senior running back of the football eam. Innocently, the aid office took the usual steps. "We sent them off ordinary letters of notification." Malin says and grabs his head in both hands. Several protests later, the problematic rule...
That was wishful thinking. The next skirmish in the contest of wills was already set to take place in Scotland, where a Soviet vessel was expected to pick up the first six U.S.-designed turbines ordered from Britain's John Brown Engineering Ltd. The British, like the French, are taking a hard line, demanding that their pipeline suppliers ignore the U.S. ban. Said a senior British official: "We are not going to be bullied by Washington...
...lived happily, happily, happily, happily." Only the tin-eared could miss the irony of that description. Cheever's people are imprisoned, often comically, by their station wagons and swimming pools and leafy estates. The constant issue in his fiction is not the disposition of wealth but the quotidian skirmish with spiritual poverty...
...Israelis pushed north, they began first to skirmish and then to fight with Syrian troops that were deployed in northern Lebanon in 1976 as part of the Arab Deterrent Force to separate warring left-and right-wing Lebanese factions. The Israelis were determined to end Syria's ability to assist the P.L.O. and attacked Syrian positions after publicly warning Damascus not to get involved in the fighting. A bitter confrontation ensued...
...born to toil, and to be obsessive about his labors. Woman was born to complain: "You never pay any attention to me." More divorce wars seem to start with this skirmish than with anything else these days, and the virtues of Smash Palace begin with the simple fact that it has observed the phenomenon closely and painfully. Odd that we have to look as far away as New Zealand (not exactly one of our major movie centers) for what may be the most melodramatic but also the most acutely motivated film yet about divorce...