Word: skirmishes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with a fencing manual in his left hand, and before you know it Cesario with up holding both swords. In a subsequent go-around Andrew is so afraid of opening his eyes that he finds himself blindly bashing against the sword hanging at Sir Toby's side. This whole skirmish is a howl...
Secure Beachhead. No anti-poverty undertaking has been adopted without a skirmish, but the legal-services program seems to have established a secure beachhead. Some lawyers warn that it is the beginning of "socialized law" in the U.S., that it will take business away from private attorneys in poor neighborhoods, and that it violates the bar's Code of Ethics by actively soliciting clients' business. Nonetheless, the American Bar Association, mindful that the medical profession won little esteem by its high-powered resistance to medicare, has endorsed the project and pledged full cooperation. "In helping to carry...
...periphery of the moral and philosophical debate about Viet Nam, a hot little skirmish flared last week over the Administration's practical prosecution...
...after the defeat of Lehman, whom he had personally selected and endorsed, in a district where registered Democrats outnumber Republicans 3-2. If the Democratic Senator and the Republican mayor are engaged in a long-range battle for political control of New York, Lindsay had clearly won the first skirmish...
...days at hard labor) for parading without a permit in Birmingham. That reversal came from Alabama's own highest state court. Despite his latest victories, Litigant Shuttlesworth is not quite ready to retire. In Cincinnati, where he now runs a Baptist church, he is in a legal skirmish with some of his own parishioners, who charge him with usurping the church trustees' financial power. For all anyone knows, that fight may wind up in the Supreme Court...