Word: skirmishers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Tacho took part in one skirmish, was defeated, thereupon gave himself the title of General. His fluency in English, which he speaks with a tough accent, won him a job as an interpreter for the sharp-tongued Liberal politician, José Maria Moncada. When Moncada became President in 1929, Tacho became Subsecretary of Foreign Affairs...
...mother, finally won legal guardianship of him, after twelve years of claims and counterclaims, in & out of court. In 1932, two years after nicking the late Playboy Phil Plant for a $1,000,000 divorce, she said young Peter was her godson, formally adopted him. Last fall, during a skirmish with the Plant estate for a $150,000 settlement on young Peter, she said the boy was actually her son and Phil's. At other times there have been other explanations of Peter: i) he is the adopted child of an English woman; 2) the orphan of her cousin...
...ancient, polite, intermittent, usually private war between the U.S. Army and the U.S. Navy, the way was cleared last week for another skirmish...
...circ. 11,863). The Litticks fought back by taking up United Press and International News Service, along with their Associated Press membership. But until lately, when his News got U.P., Jones managed with Transradio News alone. He carried on a running battle in type. He has lost one physical skirmish: when he struck a Signal photographer, the Signal man bashed Jones over the head with the camera...
...will be able to field a complete squad in tip-top condition. They sparked as a unit for the first time all season in the last half of the Yale game, three weeks ago, and they have had these weeks in which to whip themselves into condition for this skirmish...