Word: skirmished
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...starting with John Kennedy, the job of Commander in Chief changed dramatically. Thanks to modern communications, Presidents became as intimate with battlefields as company commanders in a skirmish...
...Reagan Administration seems to have been almost spoiling for a skirmish with the Soviets, or at least a shouting match. It has also shown a disturbing tendency to treat virtually every international problem as a manifestation of the U.S.-U.S.S.R. rivalry. Haig returned home last week insisting that friends of the U.S. in Europe and the Middle East were reassured by America's determination to stand up to Soviet expansionism. But he also seemed somewhat chastened by criticism of the tenor of U.S. policy, as well he should be. Haig will soon be supervising an interagency review of East...
...tenuous as "I was at a party with Suzanne Somers" or "Donald Sutherland walked into the drugstore while I was buying aspirin," but the speaker associates himself in no uncertain terms with the name he drops. I could never get over the way Woodward and Bernstein used to skirmish this way: Bob would tell Carl he saw Frank Perdue on the bus; Carl would tell Bob he nearly ran Rod McKuen down in front of Sans Souci, and so on. I guess it was just hard for me to understand how two people as as sensitive and wonderful as Carl...
Lippert also led a brigade against my room. I had unwisely drawn his disfavor--leading to a skirmish that resulted in one flooded room (mine), one completely decimated window (also mine), one inundated desk (yes mine). and threats of future revenge including the weekly deluging of my Sunday New York Times...
...Panama, the task force rejected the proposal to train larger numbers of troops outside the country. The move would take too many soldiers off active duty when they were sorely needed. Sending U.S. advisers into the field was considered very risky; the death of an American soldier in a skirmish with the guerrillas would clearly escalate protests that the US was getting mired in another Viet...