Word: skirmishers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wanted-though the Russians had probably needed it more than the West. If the West, lulled by the Paris agreement, relaxed its efforts to build up the non-Communist world, then the meeting would turn out to be a great Communist victory. If not, it would be just another skirmish in the long, cold...
...first battle would not be fought on the field of civil rights. Before that issue was joined, North and South faced a preliminary skirmish over a new anti-filibuster rule. Under the proposed rule, two-thirds of the Senate could limit debate on any motion or measure. Southern Senators, well knowing that this would spike their guns in the civil rights fight, were set to filibuster the anti-filibuster rule to death, and Harry Truman knew it when he gave his order to Senate Majority Leader Scott Lucas...
Bearded Headmaster Copping had already declared war on discipline of the young by their elders. He won a skirmish when Eric Wildman, a maker of whipping canes and head of Britain's Society for the Retention of Corporal Punishment, went up to Horsley Hall to lecture: Copping's students seized Caneman Wildman and flogged him with his own rods (TIME, Dec. 6). But 28-year-old Robert Copping had lots of other ideas for battles on a wider front...
Ulysses-like Ted Anderson, unsurpassed among his company in wiles, will wrestle in the 145-pound classic for the Freshmen against Adams, big spear of the Red and Gray. This skirmish, according to Chafee, will be the liveliest in the battle...
...Nothing serious, just blowing off a little steam after studying for exams," was Chief Alvin R. Randall's comment last night about the brawl between "townies" and freshmen which developed from a friendly snowfall Friday night. The skirmish brought the Yard's midnight constabulary and several proctors out into the Yard to break...