Word: skirmishes
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Until very recently, Germany was the one nation simply unable to beat any European nation. There was of course, 1870. But several pictures have pegged that in its true light: the first minor skirmish of World War I. Now the nation seems to be getting stronger; in The Devil Makes Three and The Search they help Americans beat both Nazis and Russians...
...Damned Impertinence." The skirmish was the one bright spot in an increasingly dark picture. The war against the Mau Mau gets worse, not better. A joint Tory-Laborite parliamentary delegation returned to England and reported sharply last week that Kenya's emergency is fast spreading, partly because the colonial government "has not yet secured the full support, loyalty and understanding of the majorities in all the racial communities...
...route to the presidential handshake . . . despite their correct evening attire, their long white gloves." Added Columnist Gordon later: "We might as well go in galoshes and tweed hats." The Battles of Protocol. A late-in-life blonde with the temper of a redhead, Columnist Gordon has fought many a skirmish before on the field of protocol...
...another six weeks. Then, the recommendation will go to the Senate Rules Committee, which will report to the Senate. Unless Iraud is clearly shown, a majority of Senators almost certainly will stand by Colleague Chavez. On one other point, however, there was even greater certainty: having won a skirmish, old (70) Cavalryman Hurley is sure to dig in his spurs and ride harder than ever...
...wild, sleepless days, the men of the 24th Division fought a series of desperate delaying actions designed to slow the Red flood and borrow time for the Eighth Army to unload at Pusan and establish a firm line of defense. Each hour of delay, each blunting skirmish that forced the Communists to detour or deploy, was a small triumph, paid in full with American lives. Four times on the bloody road from Seoul the G.I.s halted the Reds briefly, upsetting their timetable and flattening their warhead...