Word: skirmished
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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France: Declared its seven-year skirmish with Algeria, which ended in 1962 after more than half a million deaths...
...Four people are hospitalized after a skirmish between labor leaders and members of black Vietnam veterans' group at a National Caucus of Labor Committee meeting at Phillips Brooks House...
...fight for independence, Patriots Day is a holiday unique to Massachusetts. Every year in Concord, troops of minutemen assemble at dawn to reenact the march to the Old North Bridge and the subsequent battle with the redcoats while over in Lexington, history buffs watch a similar reenactment of the skirmish on the green...
Hanks is unusually generous to the press; he tries to give a fresh, incisive quote to each journalist. He even took it well when he heard he would be bumped off the cover of this week's TIME because of some minor congressional skirmish. Caring and articulate, he rarely trips over his own dexterity. And when he does it makes news...
Chain's death in a skirmish to save a 40-ft. redwood was murder, plain, pure and simple. A compassionate person was sacrificed at the altar of human greed. What incredible arrogance and ignorance. But these two qualities do seem to go hand in hand, don't they? CAROLYN AND DAVE CANOY Salem...