Word: skirmishers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there was to be civil war, the Communists staged what looked like an opening skirmish one night around the Place de 1'Etoile, in which stands the Arch of Triumph. At 9 p.m. in the Salle Wiagram an organization called "The League for the Rights of Peoples Oppressed by the Soviets" had scheduled a rally at which Polish, Rumanian, Hungarian, Bulgarian and Yugoslav refugees would tell what things were like under the Stalinist boot. That morning the Communist paper L'Humanité had summoned the faithful to break up the meeting. "Everyone to the Wagram tonight...
Carey was not intimidated; he fought on, trying to soften some of the union's pronouncements on U.S. policies. In the middle of one skirmish, up jumped a Careyman who said he was an ex-Communist. He shouted that the union "is controlled lock, stock and barrel by the Communist Party. . . . The only decisions which will come out of this convention are those having the stamp of approval of the Party." Retorted "Fitzy" Fitzgerald: "Trash...
...when Manny Aguirre scored on a dash in from his left wing position halfway through the third period. Carlos Blanco booted in the sixth as the fourth period opened, and Bill Dawson counted the final one fifteen seconds before the game ended, tapping the ball in from a skirmish in front of the goal...
Jersey Level. Standard,Gil Co. of New Jersey, which refused to hike its gasoline prices two months ago, won a price skirmish over competitors who did. As new customers flocked to Standard stations, the Texas Co. and Shell Oil cut the price of their gasoline by ½? a gallon to the "Jersey level." Most of Standard's other competitors followed suit, while smaller companies prepared to fall into line...
...furious "circular advance-back to lines from which it had marched after World War I. It was a counterrevolution as drastic as a full-scale revival of the 1914 Pierce-Arrow, the buttonhook and the mustache cup. The summer's furore over longer hemlines was nothing but a skirmish. Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, imperious oracles of the dressmakers, sounded the call. Unabashed, they now cried that what was black had become white, that there was no figure but the hourglass figure and that salvation lay in what Harper's called the new "Mold of Fashion...