Word: skirmishes
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...fierce skirmish of the Korean war in late 1950, Army Corporal Mitchell Red Cloud Jr., an American Indian from Wisconsin, died gallantly, won the U.S. Medal of Honor for holding his position, though mortally wounded. At ceremonies earlier this month, honoring Red Cloud and other Indians killed in Korea, peppery old (82) Korean President Syngman Rhee loosed a surprise blast at some of Hollywood's vaguely historical horse operas. Cried Rhee: "Movie producers [should] stop making films that show American Indians being killed by white men. It is very, very unwise and inhumane. The Communists are making...
...seeking shelter behind a rock when their tires were punctured by shots and holding out until their ammo was exhausted. The fight was useless. One morning last week the gendarmes found the bullet-ridden bodies of Wilson, Carroll and their two Iranian companions lying on the scene of the skirmish. Of Anita Carroll the only sign left was a trail of torn paper leading to the bandits' mountain fastnesses...
...discovery goes back to 1921, when some British soldiers, digging in during a skirmish with Arab tribesmen, found, fragments of old buildings in the Syrian desert sand. Excited archaeologists dug deeper, came upon the Syrian city of Dura-Europos, which in about A.D. 250 had been a garrisoned outpost of the Roman Empire, athwart the main trade route between Antioch and Seleucia. Dura had a large Jewish community and a sizable synagogue. On the synagogue's walls the excavators found murals illustrating Old Testament stories, with certain Talmudic touches added...
Glaring Light. The prospects for action from the election-refreshed 85th Congress were good. Despite the promise of a long-heralded Senate skirmish over rules, there was a strong chance for major civil-rights legislation, the first since Reconstruction. Some 175,000 Hungarian refugees had placed in glaring light the need for changes in the inflexible McCarran-Walter Immigration and Nationality Act. U.S. monetary policy was in for a review; so was the vastly important foreign-aid program. A school-construction program was likely to be enacted...
...that point, the segregationists clearly were carrying Clinton's critical day. But they had won only a skirmish...