Word: skirmishers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first skirmish of the war took place after Olivet's football team won its last home game with Anderson College (13-6) in November. President Ashby, a football fan, declared a holiday to celebrate. The Smith group of teachers and their student followers disdainfully held classes anyway. Later, in a speech to Detroit alumni, President Ashby remarked that most of the student troublemakers in the uproar over the sacking of Akeley came from one race and one locality. The S.A.C.s decided that he was referring to Olivet's Jewish students from New York, demanded at a mass meeting...
...unable to stop any Crimson eleven, but Brown now sports a six game winning streak which every man on the Bruin eleven is determined to increase this afternoon. Injuries have just about disappeared on the Brown team and every first string squad member is in top shape for the skirmish with the exception of Captain Norm lacuelo, who has been out all season with a torn knee ligament. Quarterback Ed Finn and end Ted Hendrick have been named by Coach Engle as the game co-captains for today's tussle...
Trust-Busted. In a federal court in Manhattan, the Department of Justice won a skirmish in its antitrust battle (TIME, Oct. 4). Eight of the biggest U.S. tiremakers* and the Rubber Manufacturers' Association, all charged with conspiring to fix prices and discounts, were fined a total...
...some 200 years, Lloyd's of London had known every day of the Empire's growth-every new wharf, every skirmish, every treaty. One night last week, Lloyd's, like a rich aunt with the children home from school, threw open its doors for a party Disraeli would have loved: for 2,400 guests, 2,400 bottles of champagne, and, to soften the glitter of the great marble halls, ?1,400 worth of flowers. The London Evening Standard glowed: "Diamonds, champagne, beautiful women in lovely gowns, men wearing dazzling displays of honors and medals. There...
...Fifty-seven times, as he voted "abstention," Cannon's arm shot up like a railroad signal gone wild; the 58th time (when the draft as a whole was put to the vote) he voted "no" but was, from habit, listed as abstaining again. He rose to his last skirmish: "Mr. Chairman, there has been an error . . ." Vishinsky murmured impatiently: "All right, all right." Cannon sat down again...