Word: skirmishes
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...Jerusalem, holy city of Jew, Moslem and Christian, every political skirmish leaves a wide-open wound. A talent for healing is a prime requisite for the job of the British High Commissioner...
Fighting for the return of the $2 shirt and the 98? cotton housedress, Chester Bowles last week led his Office of Price Administration into another skirmish. He ordered some 309,000 retailers' mark-up of clothing and some household furnishings prices frozen at March 19 levels...
...coalition was loosely formed. But it recognized two political facts of life: Franklin Roosevelt needed pressure from the left to stay "a little left of center"; and this was presumably the President's last term in office. From their first skirmish and hasty retreat, they claimed a partial victory: a Roosevelt promise to "consult" them next time...
Then began a curious skirmish. Senators Claude Pepper of Florida and James E. Murray of Montana, who had voted against all the nominees because they did not like ex-Cotton Broker Will Clayton, hastily switched their votes. Pennsylvania's New Dealing Joe Guffey wanted to do likewise, but Committee Chairman Tom Connally drawled: "If I let you change your vote, are you agoin' to stay hitched?" Infuriated, Joe Guffey let his "nay" stand...
Graves. To the west, the British and Canadians were on traditional ground. There was only a skirmish near the graves of Canadians who had stormed the beach at Dieppe in August 1942. British tanks clanked over the Somme where in September, 28 years before, the first tank had straddled a German trench. Five years to the day after Britain's declaration of war on Nazi Germany, Tommies were greeted at Arras by the carillon of the 16th-Century Hotel de Ville. The bells rang out God Save the King. Brussels was liberated well ahead of schedule. Dunkirk, of proud...