Word: skirmisher
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...order in East Asia." However the conference ends, Tokyo newspapers rejoiced over a preliminary Japanese victory-the "official" language of the conference is to be Japanese. When Sir Robert and Minister Arita met, however, they dispensed with interpreters (Sir Robert does not speak Japanese) and conducted the first skirmish in English, which Mr. Arita speaks fluently...
...down in the spring breeze announcing that "friendly" Italian troops were arriving that day to take over the country and "reestablish order, peace and justice." At four Albanian seaports, the nearest one (Durazzo) only 25 miles from Tirana, warships soon hove into sight, began bombarding. Troops were landed. A skirmish or so developed. The little Albanian army of 13,000 was quickly mobilized, and hardy mountaineer fighters brought out their ancient rifles, pistols, carved daggers...
...this week. WPAdministrator "Pink" Harrington went up to the Capitol to testify in detail about his needs, armed with State-by-State figures on the impending layoffs. These maneuvers worried many a Congressman. On others they had an opposite effect. Apostles of Economy were goaded into balkiness. The first skirmish of the Second Battle of Relief was promptly fought...
...Leverett-Adams Skirmish, the lively Gold Coasters started off immediately on a scoring spree, and the Rabbits never once threatened their lead. Gordon and Calfee, mainstays for the Adams quintet, rolled up the highest scores with five field goals each while Dobbyn did most of the scoring for the Bunnies...
Rocking in the wake of Mr. Stuart Scrymgeour's artificial-flowery spate of indignation (TIME, Jan. 9), I am reminded that contemporaries of Alexander Scrymgeour, of the days of William Wallace, sometimes referred to him as Alexander Skirmisher, the forms scrimmage and skirmish illustrating the R-metathesis common in English and other Germanic languages. That Mr. Scrymgeour knows how to pronounce his name, or that ancestors of both of us were skirmishers and huntsmen in Scotland "afore the Saxons landed," I do not doubt; but a Scot who supposes that these forbears bore our present, or any other, established...