Word: skirmisher
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...State Department, officials commend TV for its taste in "the invasion of battlefield privacy," but deplore the penchant of correspondents for overplaying each skirmish as some kind of turning point. Only recently, in a rare turnabout, CBS characterized the battle of Loc Ninh as simply the recapturing of a town that was overrun by the enemy, while ABC more correctly described it as one of "the greatest American victories...
...Shut Up. For his own major skirmish in that war, in the East Room of the White House, Johnson broke completely with his usual press-conference choreography. Thanks to a lavalier microphone, he was able to leave the lectern and prowl back and forth on a makeshift stage-all the while chopping the air, clutching his breast, slapping, clenching and conjoining his big hands to pound home his points, toying with his glasses and abandoning his previous deadpan, Sunday-sermon visage for a range of grins and grimaces, smiles and scowls worthy of a Method actor. All the while...
...latest skirmish, the City of Cambridge tried Tuesday to get a "stay of execution pending appeal" on a court order to proceed immediately printing ballots bearing the peace plank. But a state supreme court justice turned down the request...
Just two days after his statement, the Mayor launched the first skirmish in his War on Hippies, a televised raid at 183 Columbia Street. It is in a dusty slum area whose dirty gutters and tottering houses contrast sharply with Kinnaird Street...
...begins to look remarkably like Che when he came out of Cuba's Sierra Maestra with Castro in 1959. The one element that makes the pictures current is a woman at his side; she was an Argentine guerrilla companion nicknamed Tania killed only three weeks ago in a skirmish with the Bolivian army...