Word: skirmisher
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Five persons were arrested in the initial police advance. During this 15 minute melee, two sections of a fence running down the middle of the MTA median strip were demolished. Following the initial skirmish, the protesters crowded on their side of the street, and listened to speeches and jeered at Republicans who entered the armory...
...epic about a young man, unpromising at school, whose parents did not pay him quite enough attention. Since Young Winston attempts to be a kind of vest-pocket spectacle, there are also a couple of the battles in which he fought (a set-to in the Sudan, a Boer skirmish). Attenborough stages them with all the fury of a grade school recess. He has better luck with the actors, perhaps because he is an actor himself. Ward is credible in the thorny role of Winston as a young man, Shaw superb as his father. The secondary characters are all cast...
...only excitement of the Republican Convention had nothing to do with this year's presidential campaign. It was an opening skirmish for the 1976 contest. Liberals clashed with conservatives in a classic Republican encounter; and as usual, the outnumbered, outmaneuvered liberals lost. The big winner appears to be Spiro Agnew, who has clearly begun...
...This spring the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the right of the Old Order Amish of the U.S. to keep their children out of high school (TIME, May 29). Now the Amish have won a battle with the U.S. Department of Labor-a skirmish over hats. Effective in January, a federal regulation required construction workers of all kinds to wear hard hats. The Amish refused to give up their traditional broad-brimmed felt hat, which they wear as part of their religion, and this spring some 400 Amish workers in Indiana were furloughed from their construction jobs. On their behalf, Attorney...
...small skirmish indeed when compared with the rioting that shook major U.S. universities during 1969 and 1970. And small compared with the prospect of a nationwide student strike that had been proposed by activists to protest the renewed U.S. bombing of North Viet Nam. But the repeated outbreaks of campus violence offered clear evidence that the student protest movement is not dead...