Word: skirmisher
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...East fenced with West, in a skirmish which went by certain rules and limits, everyone was increasingly aware that a dangerous imponderable had been added to all the cautious, careful calculations about the "aching tooth" of Berlin, the bone in Khrushchev's throat. This was the presence of an ever-increasing flow of westward-moving refugees racing to use the West Berlin escape hatch. For the West to encourage it, or for the East to shut it off, could bring things to a flash point...
...final touch of satire is a ripenorting skirmish in shoot-em-up Western style, with rifles cracking and artillery bombarding, with the Southern mansion blown to bits before our very eyes, and with Thersites treacherously shot dead in the back (as an echo of the earlier slaying of Hector...
...children, followed by the cries of their parents, have all but enveloped the summer-soft days. Across the whole expanse of the U.S., the wildernesses where once only the hardiest of outdoorsmen trod now shuddered under the invasion of hundreds of thousands of families hungering for a summertime skirmish with nature. Smitten by the call of the not-so-wild, these families were happily engaged in a great and grow-inp national pastime-camping...
Last year the annual honorary skirmish was enlivened when Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38 and John Kenneth Galbraith complained that the University honored too many Republicans and too few "liberal Democrats." According to the two professors, "No Democratic Governor of the Commonwealth has received an honorary degree for many decades, and no Republican Governor has failed to receive one." With Galbraith playing viceroy in India and Schlesinger glued to the White House TV set, President Pusey may go out on a limb this year and name Gov. Volpe--a Republican...
...Potomac for their 70th annual séance. With nary a dissent, the Continental Congress passed resolutions condemning federal grants-in-aid, "demoralization in the entertainment world," and the issuance of postage stamps commemorating foreigners. In other actions, the Founding Mothers endorsed the Monroe Doctrine, engaged in a minor skirmish when a lone maverick opposed censure of the Peace Corps. Summarily shutting off the debate ("You've had your two minutes"), D.A.R. President General, Mrs. Ashmead White, gaveled through a resolution to keep the U.S.'s "inexperienced youth" at home...