Word: skirmisher
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...state. He was glad to come, but has yet to reward them for their early fealty. Then the same leaders battled Mayor Wagner over the legislative leadership early this year; each side was more concerned with its own victory than with the image of the Democratic Party. The skirmish ended with Mayor Wagner on top. His prize was not so much legislative patronage and a palatable tax plan as the destruction of the power of his enemy, Stanley Steingut, Kings County (Brooklyn) leader...
Semantic Problem. While Americans generally were at last beginning to realize that this was no remote frontier skirmish but an all-out war, there was still considerable confusion over where it would lead. To many, the very word "negotiations" had talismanic power, as though a swift and honorable solution were waiting readymade if only the statesmen could find the magic formula. To be sure, U.S. officials have taken every opportunity to underscore their determination to negotiate peace terms. But even if North Viet Nam were to agree to sit down at the bargaining table tomorrow, the killing might well continue...
Pakistan reacted in fear in 1962 when the U.S. shipped India $200 million worth of tanks and planes to prevent the Chinese from nibbling the northeast frontier. Nehru promised that the arms would never be used against Pakistan, but a skirmish in the worthless Rann of Kutch swamplands proved that India would break her vow. The State Department quickly labelled Pakistan as the aggressor and filed the entire matter...
...battle started when miners dynamited the local police headquarters to protest a government edict reducing wages and laying off unnecessary workers. The government responded by putting the entire country under a state of siege and ordering 6,500 troops to the area. After a day-long skirmish that left 26 miners and six soldiers dead and some 100 wounded on both sides, the miners retreated into the mines...
Most military observers thought the fighting so far had gone about as expected. In the short run, Pakistan's small, highly trained army is more than a match for the Indians. But each skirmish and each day in the field reduces the efficiency of the U.S. weapons and equipment, and brings the Pakistanis toward closer parity with the Indians...