Word: skirmisher
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...furious "circular advance-back to lines from which it had marched after World War I. It was a counterrevolution as drastic as a full-scale revival of the 1914 Pierce-Arrow, the buttonhook and the mustache cup. The summer's furore over longer hemlines was nothing but a skirmish. Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, imperious oracles of the dressmakers, sounded the call. Unabashed, they now cried that what was black had become white, that there was no figure but the hourglass figure and that salvation lay in what Harper's called the new "Mold of Fashion...
Last week, Wehran won a significant skirmish. Transocean Air Lines, which operates a fleet of ten DC-4 overseas freighters, moved its eastern base from LaGuardia Field to Teterboro, giving Wehran his first transatlantic service...
...America is a cozy little country consisting of three small states, California, Kentucky and Texas. . . . There used to be another state called Georgia, but that was away back in history days. . . . The history of America is short and easy to remember. There have been two internal wars: a dull skirmish with the English about tea, which was all right once they got rid of Benedict Arnold, and a really dressy struggle between the North and the South. The North won, and were right, but the South, who lost, were nicer. After that, nothing happened until . . . some people called doughboys went...
...Russia would not agree to Germany's economic unification unless Russia were assured German reparations from current German production. The French said that they would not agree to anything, either, unless they were assured coal from the Ruhr. This got George Marshall good & mad. He charged into the skirmish more fiercely than at any time since he came to Moscow...
Raising the curtain on a preliminary skirmish, the Yardlings will take on a combined Jayvee and Freshman invasion from Dartmouth at 7:45 o'clock...