Word: skirmishers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moreover, Dr. Levine's bit of wisdom not only seemed to hold true for the three-quarter status quo of the Buckeye-Wolverine skirmish, but the entire college football season to date. And for that matter, the N.F.L...
...Broadway's Roundabout Theater is a place where neglected plays of classic playwrights come out of hiding. The current season, the Roundabout's twelfth, began with a stylish production of Shaw's You Never Can Tell, a playful skirmish between the sexes that is all jests and no scars. With Naked, the company shifts to the somber philosophical terrain of a 1922 work by Pirandello...
...Senate liberals won a skirmish, but they may have lost the war. Long, so far, seems to have had his way. Unless his conference committee colleagues knock out his rebate plan, Jimmy Carter's scheme to return the added cost of energy to consumers, not to the oil companies, will be d-a-i-d, dead...
...20th century gallery the people admired the immovable flecks of paint that still suggested the fleeting vision of a group of Post-Impressionist painters. They chatted idly. The afternoon was a skirmish of de-clawed cultural one-upmanship. There was a lot of talk about market prospects for the paintings and the scarcity of a certain artist's work because it is difficult to sound knowledgeable about the sensations impressionism evokes. It is perhaps the most ambiguously worded of artistic messages precisely because it imparts no message. There is a foreshadowing of the primitivism of later 20th century...
Restic is not too concerned that late fumbles will turn the tide in today's skirmish, though...