Word: skirmishes
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...latest skirmish in the wishy-washy battle of the sexes ended, temporarily at least, in victory for the females last week when sharp-eyed. Annex-dwelling editors of Radditudes repulsed a series of espionage-by-infiltration attempts by staff members of the renascent Advocate...
...Irgun raid last April. The British said that he and his pals had held up and disarmed the police, were about to seize the arms in the station when other cops on the roof opened fire, forcing the raiders to withdraw. An Arab constable was killed in the Skirmish. Gruner made no defense, refused to recognize the jurisdiction of the Palestine Government, insisted that he be treated as "a prisoner...
...miles outside of Tatung, a city of 80,000 that withstood a 45-day Communist siege, lie the Kouchuan coal mines and power plant-one of the biggest enterprises of its kind in North China. The Communists took Kouchuan last August, were driven out Oct. 31 after a mild skirmish. They left the same pattern of destruction as in Kalgan: machine shops ruined, foundries and lathes demolished, burned-out roundhouses full of burned-out locomotives, hand tools and hardware broken and scattered in the dust...
...skirmish with U.S. newspaper publishers, the American Newspaper Guild (C.I.O.) was playing no favorites. Guild pickets last week methodically patrolled J. David Stern's pro-labor Philadelphia Record and Camden (N.J.) Courier-Post. Back in 1934, when the Guild didn't even have coffee money, Dave Stern was the first publisher to sign a Guild contract...
...battle of the repertory companies, just a minor skirmish last year, is beginning to assume the proportions of a full-scale engagement in the American Theatre. This week the new American Repertory Theatre entered the lists against the established Theatre Incorporated, Theater Guild Repertory, and Old Vie companies with a high-powered, grandly conceived production of the rarely performed Elizabethan chronicle. Henry VIII written partly by Shakespeare and chiefly by his contemporary John Fletcher...