Word: skirmishers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trait show itself as starkly as in the legislatures' ceaseless squabbling over the designation of "official" animals, birds, fishes, minerals, poems, songs and flowers. Last year, after interminable conflict among advocates of barbecue, gumbo and chili, Texas legislators finally designated the last as State Dish. This year a skirmish shaped up in the New York legislature over the selection of a State Insect (praying mantis vs. Karner blue butterfly), and in New Jersey over a State Fish (bluefish leading); a struggle over the wild turkey left Alabama still, alas, without a State Game Bird...
More ominously, the production of the neutron bomb furnishes the Pentagon with the option of a tactical skirmish that could easily escalate into a full-scale strategic war. Besides increasing the nuclear threat confronting our society, deployment of the weapon will only worsen relations with the Soviet Union and make a farce of all disarmament talks. With all these adverse effects to consider, it is imperative that Carter maintain his heretofore tentative stand against U.S. production of the neutron bomb...
...central battle took place in the administration building. There, a band of 20 radicals emerged from the storm-drain sewer and attacked the nerve center of the airport. In a running skirmish with security forces, ten of the radicals made it to the elevators leading to the control tower 16 floors above. They disembarked at the 14th floor, climbed up a huge parabolic antenna, beating it with hammers as they went, and smashed the slanted windows of the tower. Six rioters shinnied through the broken windows and proceeded to batter radar and communications consoles. Five frightened technicians who had been...
...confidence against Hopkins," netminder First said, and it showed when the stickmen took the field against C.W. Post on Wednesday. Post, which had trounced Yale, 10-6, earlier in the week, showed early in the game that it would have to be reckoned with as the skirmish adjourned at halftime with Harvard leading by only...
...things run in cycles, and soon war will visit us here again; southern Africa has compelled just a skirmish. War will come because the old roles don't change; the University cares only for learning. Harvard grudgingly permits political activity only so long as there is no interference with the educational process. But let one class be delayed, one dean distracted, one tax exemption threatened. Then the heavens fall, and the Faculty huddles: learning has been attacked...