Word: skirmisher
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...just that, then turned down, 50 to 34, a motion by Morse to send the bill to the previously bypassed Judiciary Committee for a few days. Segregationist Leader Russell, although he knew he was fighting a last-ditch battle, seemed unfazed. Said he: "Unfortunately we have lost a skirmish. We shall now begin to fight...
...film proceeds through skirmish after skirmish like this. Some of the figures are familiar: Robert Kennedy, tight-lipped, incessantly drumming a pencil on the table. Sen. John G. McClellan (D.-Ark.) observing with a dry Southern voice what a horrible person Sen. McCarthy was Sen. Stuart Symington (D.-Mo.) whom McCarthy refers to as "Sanctimonious...
India won the skirmish, but the U.S. won the war. Ralston, the Peck's Bad Boy of tennis, for once kept his temper under control, beat Krishnan at his own sandy game, with short volleys and dinky drop shots that won in straight sets, 6-4, 6-1, 13-11. Texas' Chuck McKinley, mounting the same kind of whirlwind attack that earned him the Wimbledon championship, needed only 72 minutes to dispose of India's Permjit Lall, 6-4, 6-3, 6-0. Ralston and McKinley then won the doubles to give...
...college girls rose from 35% to 50%. "Colleges put themselves in a unique position by allowing girls in boys' bedrooms," said Blaine, who thinks Harvard should and could draw the line at living rooms. But that was not quite Monro's point. "Every year we have a skirmish over social hours," he said. "This year there was a difference. We're worried by what we discovered in the way of attitudes...
...usual S. & H. green stamps, but pink ones because a local stamp rival called Green Shield got there first. In violent opposition, Lord Sainsbury, boss of the big Sainsbury's grocery chain, is preparing to do bitter battle against the gum-backed invaders. In the first skirmish he cut the price of bread, but his chances of holding out are slim. In the U.S. even the mighty A. & P. buckled under after years of resisting...