Word: skirmishes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...miles southeast of San'a, where 500 Yemenis commanded by Prince Abdullah attacked an Egyptian position on top of a sheer-sided hill that was fortified with six So viet T-54 tanks, a dozen armored cars and entrenched machine guns. The Yemenis, advancing in a thin skirmish line, were plastered by artillery, mortars and strafing planes. They could reply only with rifles, one mortar with 20 rounds, and a bazooka with four rounds-handled by a man who had never fired a bazooka before in his life. The fight for El Argoup lasted a week and ended...
...20th Precinct. Manhattan, checked in at the station house to pick up a spare passenger, then set off on a routine night patrol that included aiding an arrest, family squabbles, a threatened knife skirmish, and a checkup on two youthful narcotics users. Nobody recognized the "detective" in dark glasses and a borrowed fedora, even though his framed portrait hung on the wall in one shabby basement apartment. It was Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., 41, prowling the streets incognito with New York's Finest. "He was interested mostly in the kids," reported Patrolman Thomas Gannon. "He said it looked...
...shift in strategic thinking under McNamara boils down to an increased flexibility in how the U.S. might respond to whatever an enemy does. From nuclear warfare down to a jungle skirmish, it provides for McNamara's insistence upon "options." Under Eisenhower, the basic reliance was upon total nuclear retaliation...
...first skirmish between Kennedy and Mills on the reform issue took place last summer when, with the economy showing signs of slump, Kennedy considered calling for a "quickie" tax cut. Mills and Secretary Dillon, allies for tax reform, held firm against a hasty tax bill, and Kennedy discarded the idea. But he still committed himself in public to tax reduction "to take effect as of the start of next year." To get early tax reduction through Congress, Kennedy planned on a two-package approach?cuts in one package, reform in the other. Again Mills balked, and again Kennedy revised...
...fight started as a mere skirmish between television giants maneuvering for position in the uncertain color-TV market. Philco charged that RCA, with some 12,700 patents, was freezing other manufacturers out of color, and in an antitrust suit asked $150 million in treble damages. RCA in rebuttal accused Philco of patent infringements and false attacks on the reliability of RCA's three-gun color tube, demanded $174 million in damages. As years went by, the fight descended into a hopeless tangle of side issues, including a Philco attempt to take over a Philadelphia television station operated...