Word: skirmished
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With barely three minutes to play in the second, Moore took a shot on net, taking out DiPietro in the process. Terriers' center Dan Cavanaugh defended DiPietro by going after Moore, causing a skirmish in front of the goal...
...though defeated in the end, Adams still had reason to cheer. The weeklong skirmish it inspired between the two Houses awoke an outpouring of House spirit unlike anything seen on Harvard's campus since randomization began...
...Kansas skirmish marks the latest episode of a long struggle by religious Fundamentalists and their allies to restrict or eliminate the teaching of evolution in public schools--a misguided effort that our courts have quashed at each stage, and that saddens both scientists and most theologians. No scientific theory, including evolution, can pose any threat to religion--for these two great tools of human understanding operate in complementary (not contrary) fashion in their totally separate realms: science as an inquiry about the factual state of the natural world, religion as a search for spiritual meaning and ethical values...
Reporters were promised high jinks at the Reform Party National Convention. "Bring your asbestos suit," chortled Phil Madsen, an aide to Jesse Ventura, relishing a skirmish between his boss and Ross Perot, the party's founder. "Its going...
...built even as the air war raged. Marko says the park offers "proof of care for the young generation." For the older generation, proof of Marko's care can be seen at Madona, a nightclub enticingly advertised as the largest in the Balkans. It threatened to start its own skirmish when Liz Rosenberg, the other Madonna's publicist, was quoted as saying the pop star might sue Marko for using her name. Before too much American ink could be shed, though, Rosenberg clarified her remarks as a joke...