Word: skirmisher
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...number of soldiers at Haiphong. But the agreement did not come soon enough to satisfy the fire-eating leaders of Japan's South China Army. Before Major General Nishihara could communicate with them, they had crossed the border at Dong Dang, engaged in a bloody, two-hour midnight skirmish with the French defenders. Next morning Tokyo announced the surrender of the French, and the Japanese marched triumphantly on, while their Foreign Office virtuously announced that the clash "was entirely due to misunderstanding on the part of French Indo-China...
This all's-well fiction continued to crumble as reports, vigorously denied by Cárdenas spokesmen, poured in from the provinces. Four men were killed in a skirmish in the northern state of Durango. A train was reported held up near Almazán's Monterrey stronghold. Armed men boarded a ship in Veracruz, seized stores of frozen meat from Argentina. A hurried visit to the capital by the military commander of Chiapas started a flood of rumors that trouble was brewing in the south...
Holding his main attack in reserve for his official acceptance speech next week, Republican Nominee Wendell Willkie kept up a running skirmish with his Presidential opponent. As Democratic bolters and independent voters came out for him, Candidate Willkie stood at the head of the receiving line, deftly turning each one's particular strength into a campaign weapon-sometimes by letting a new supporter speak for himself, sometimes by his own welcoming remarks. Last week Mr. Willkie received into the fold...
...pierce 2-inch armor at 1,500 yards) and smokepots (devised to blind tank crews in grey, saccharine fog). Some of the tanks had names. Defense forces using smokepots and modernized French 75-mm. field guns captured Gypsy Rose Lee, Diamond Lil, Galloping Ghost, Suicide Kid in one skirmish. Along with a completely mechanized cavalry brigade, there was still horse cavalry. But even the horses were modernized. There were trucks to haul them on long marches; some carried portable radio transmitters which the riders operated on horseback in the field...
Three of them were shot dead, as were four civilians, in a skirmish that lasted a few minutes and ended with the Count's and guards' arrest. The Nazis reported that the Danes so understood and appreciated their arrival that only nine other killings were "necessary" in all Denmark...