Word: skirmishes
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...what will amount to a propaganda skirmish, Gorbachev will charge the U.S. with abusing American Indians, blacks and other minorities and attack America for not providing full employment and national health programs...
...users who want to protect it, by governments that want to control it, by pornographers who want to exploit its freedoms, by parents and teachers who want to make it a safe and useful place for kids. The Canter-and-Siegel affair, say Net observers, was just the opening skirmish in the larger battle for the soul of the Internet...
Donato declined to deem the skirmish premeditated, saying “I think all teams try to make sure there’s a lot of traffic on the goalie and get pucks there and make his night a difficult one, but I don’t think there was any out-and-out intent to [hurt Grumet-Morris...
Donato declined to deem the skirmish premeditated, saying “I think all teams try to make sure there’s a lot of traffic on the goalie and get pucks there and make his night a difficult one, but I don’t think there was any out-and-out intent to [hurt Grumet-Morris...
...after having a cup of beer thrown on him while he was inexplicably lying atop the scorers’ table during an in-game skirmish, he flew into the stands and proceeded to carry out a sequence of events that will now be forever known as “Pulling a Ron Artest.” In one fell swoop, he proceeded to pummel a succession of drunken, painfully unathletic fans—a skinny guy and a fat guy, in fact—as an entire crowd of Motor City hooligans descended upon...