Word: skirmisher
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...designed to deflect bugs (and snow) from the windshield-received a legal setback. Connecticut banned it on the ground that it obstructed the driver's view of the road. ¶ The city of Frederick, Md. (pop. 18,000), whose place in literature was made secure by the legendary skirmish between Stonewall Jackson and Nonagenarian Barbara Fritchie, tidied up some leftover history. Two years after its encounter with Jackson, Frederick was threatened with the torch by Confederate General Jubal Early, bought him off by putting up $200,000 in ransom money which the town borrowed in haste from five local...
...casualties, American casualties, have passed 65,000. The Koreans have lost about 140,000 . . . The enemy probably has lost 750,000 casualties . . . A million men in less than eleven months of fighting! And it grows more savage every day. I just cannot brush that off as a Korean skirmish...
Slender, brown-haired Jean, 23, had made a respectable splash in music with tours of both Europe and the U.S. In Paris last summer, father, mother & son had a preliminary skirmish with the D Minor Concerto on rented pianos. Later, with father & son off on tours, they practiced separately. Home in Princeton a month ago, they knuckled down on the three pianos in their living room...
...Letter. For a few seconds it was so quiet that the ding-ding of distant streetcars was clearly heard. Then hundreds of people were running toward Blair-Lee House. A panting skirmish line of photographers charged in. A hefty Secret Service man named Floyd Boring looked up, saw the President, who had been aroused from a nap, peering out an upstairs window in his underwear. Boring bawled: "Get back! Get back!" until the President stepped out of sight...
...significant, but Brown's varsity football squad reportedly showed better in a pre-season scrimmage with Boston University than Harvard did in its practice skirmish with the Terriers a week ago. And Saturday afternoon in in New Haven a smooth-running Yale eleven completely outclassed the Bruins by a 36 to 12 count...