Word: skirmishes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Sports News blares updates from the latest baseball skirmish while several rowdy boys shout to each other: “Yes! He’s eating it! He’s getting so big!” They are screaming about Oscar, their pet fish, who lives in the oversized, day-glow fish tank across from the kegerator. Oscar is sufficiently engrossing for the hosts to pull their heads away from the 55” TV, which stands as a monument in their common room...
...Pakistani army, said the raid may be evidence of a "renewed resolve" in Islamabad to fight it out in Pakistan's tribal regions. If so, this will be welcome news to U.S. troops. Three days before the raid, an American soldier was killed just across the border in a skirmish with suspected Taliban guerrillas. --By Phil Zabriskie. With reporting by Ghulam Hasnain
...lieutenant general in the Pakistani army, also said the raid may be evidence of a "renewed resolve" in Islamabad to fight it out in its tribal regions. If so, this will be welcome news to U.S. troops. Three days before the raid, an American soldier was killed in a skirmish with suspected Taliban guerrillas just across the border...
...very day that Bush was declaring provisional victory over Baghdad, a notable skirmish in another war was quietly under way in Washington. This is a war without daily briefings by self-assured Bush men and women. It's the war over how to make America safer without turning it into a police state--how to mediate the difficult conflict between security and liberty. And this war is far from over...
...some injuries that the agency has not yet publicly acknowledged. A CIA officer was wounded by a bullet in the chest during a fire fight in southern Afghanistan, and one of the U.S. soldiers confirmed killed was working with a CIA team when he was hit in a separate skirmish...