Word: skirmishes
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...dampness out of his mighty right arm, scored three runs in the first inning, starting with a homer by Cleveland's Lou Boudreau on the second pitch. That was enough to win the game (3-to-1) and the chance to represent the big leagues in the skirmish with Uncle Sam's club in Cleveland the following night...
...optimism swirled up, as swiftly and intangibly as the crest of a breaker. Churchill's last broadcast had sounded almost triumphant; U.S. cartoonists, editors, columnists seized on every Russian skirmish as another great blow to Hitler. Chicago, for some Illinoisy reason, was pervaded with high optimism. Lots of people thought the war was being...
After dark on the day of the Channel skirmish, the Germans sent another pack of speedsters against a British convoy in the North Sea. Again British destroyers blew two E-boats to flotsam, but this time the Germans fought back, spitting torpedoes. One torpedo punched the frail hull of the Vortigern, a 1,090-ton oldtimer, and she went down. The British patrol sloop Guillemot, a 580-tonner which can do little better than 20 knots, spotted an E-boat lying in ambush, crept up within 50 yards before the German crew woke up. The Guillemot sent...
Coke & Chemical, known as District 50, took the field in skirmish order, leaping jurisdictional fences, rounding up new members for the Lewis camp. Said Kathryn blandly: "It is amazing how many things can be traced to a coal origin, with coke, chemicals, plastics and utilities as starting points." Workers in any of those materials, the Lewises reasoned, were fair game...
...skirmish between Chicago's morning colonel, Bertie McCormick of the Tribune, and Chicago's evening colonel, Frank Knox of the News, was opened by a new series of cartoons, The Adventures of Colonel M'Cosmic. The one shown above brought a grin to the lips of Chicagoans who have lately heard on WGN a lot of Colonel McCormick's omniscient broadcasts on military strategy...