Word: skirmishes
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...Honorable Michael A. Sullivan had better start looking for a new a campaign issue, for the ancient Town-and-Gown argument is dying a quick death. Since time out of mind the University and the City have carried on a skirmish for which the ammunition supply never becomes exhausted, but the advantages of joint action in matters of Air Raid Precautions are already beginning to overcome the long-standing differences...
...timing was perfect. U.S. taxpayers have started filing returns for 1941. When they get a look at Mr. Morgenthau's spring invasion, 1941's record taxes will look like a minor skirmish with a band of Indians armed with bows & arrows...
...Cyrenaica sunburned, sand-scoured soldiers of the Afrika Korps and the British Imperial forces did no more than skirmish on a line some 60 miles southwest of Tobruk. Both sides were busy getting a toe hold, bringing up supplies and reinforcements. Both air forces pounded away at each other's supply lines...
...this new attack by General Rommel over a stretch of ground that for the most part was infertile, inhospitable, useless, might well give the key to the fortunes of the African war in "the next year, perhaps for longer. For the fight in the desert was no cavalry skirmish. It was part of a great campaign for control of the Mediterranean, the great prize athwart the traffic of the United Nations to the Near East, to Russia and even on to Singapore...
Down from Vigan pushed another Jap column. Armored cars met it on the roads, whirled through a dizzying skirmish, shellacked the Jap. Some of them took to the trees, were shot down by U.S. soldiers. From the fringe of the gulf black columns of smoke rose. The U.S. Army had burned its gasoline dumps. It fell back in orderly fashion through villages where the Filipino civilians cheered and showed the "V" with their fingers. The Jap threw an armored spearhead east toward the islands' summer capital at Baguio. U.S. forces withdrew to save damage to the Philippines' most...