Word: skirmishes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...timing was perfect. U.S. taxpayers have started filing returns for 1941. When they get a look at Mr. Morgenthau's spring invasion, 1941's record taxes will look like a minor skirmish with a band of Indians armed with bows & arrows...
...Cyrenaica sunburned, sand-scoured soldiers of the Afrika Korps and the British Imperial forces did no more than skirmish on a line some 60 miles southwest of Tobruk. Both sides were busy getting a toe hold, bringing up supplies and reinforcements. Both air forces pounded away at each other's supply lines...
...this new attack by General Rommel over a stretch of ground that for the most part was infertile, inhospitable, useless, might well give the key to the fortunes of the African war in "the next year, perhaps for longer. For the fight in the desert was no cavalry skirmish. It was part of a great campaign for control of the Mediterranean, the great prize athwart the traffic of the United Nations to the Near East, to Russia and even on to Singapore...
Down from Vigan pushed another Jap column. Armored cars met it on the roads, whirled through a dizzying skirmish, shellacked the Jap. Some of them took to the trees, were shot down by U.S. soldiers. From the fringe of the gulf black columns of smoke rose. The U.S. Army had burned its gasoline dumps. It fell back in orderly fashion through villages where the Filipino civilians cheered and showed the "V" with their fingers. The Jap threw an armored spearhead east toward the islands' summer capital at Baguio. U.S. forces withdrew to save damage to the Philippines' most...
Producer Walter Wanger, holding tight to the theme of Author Barre Lyndon's original novel, worked overtime to plant his elaborate desert with oases of significance. He made the border skirmish part of Adolf Hitler's so-called plan of navy-less world domination (by conquering the European-Asiatic land mass, thus becoming independent of his enemies' sea power). He also furnished a flag-waving ending. Both devices are more embarrassing than exciting...