Word: skirmishes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...behind, the Carrmen staged a last period rally resulting in the tying score from the toe of Jack Sawhill. Then in the overtime canto the enemy swept down the field and Schmid clinched the game for gymnasts. Both Prenny Willetts and Bill Edger were injured in the afternoon's skirmish...
...always thought that the reason Snavely stirred up a hornet's nest by the charge that Duke took movies of Carolina's games previous to their skirmish in 1935 was due to the fact that it was in those films that the Duke staff found out that Coach Snavely also played quaretrback. It was quite a sight...
...Will left in Europe was Romains himself, and he scuttled for the U. S. Strategist Karl von Clausewitz said: "War is the continuation of politics by other means." If war is only one incident in a battle of political action, Jules Romains wasted his energy trying to avoid a skirmish while the battle passed...
...clear whether the Dong Dang garrison had heard about that afternoon's agreement, but in any case the agreement specified that Japanese troops should enter by the port of Haiphong, not by the China border. The French decided to resist. In a two-hour skirmish the French suffered about 100 casualties...
...number of soldiers at Haiphong. But the agreement did not come soon enough to satisfy the fire-eating leaders of Japan's South China Army. Before Major General Nishihara could communicate with them, they had crossed the border at Dong Dang, engaged in a bloody, two-hour midnight skirmish with the French defenders. Next morning Tokyo announced the surrender of the French, and the Japanese marched triumphantly on, while their Foreign Office virtuously announced that the clash "was entirely due to misunderstanding on the part of French Indo-China...