Word: skirmishes
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General Wavell did not invent this technique. Field Marshal The Viscount Allenby, his preceptor, used it. The fiery Confederate cavalry general, James Ewell Brown ("Jeb") Stuart, lost his life using it in the skirmish at Yellow Tavern on May 11, 1864. The Germans use it in Blitzkrieg...
...Easter time is a historical as well as a religious holiday. On Good Friday, 1014, King Brian Boru lost his life smashing the Vikings, who for two centuries had raided Ireland. On Easter Monday, 1916 (one day behind schedule) began the brief, bitter, bloody rising that was the first skirmish in the rebellion that led to the Irish Free State...
...cause for the turbulent racket was the fight for union recognition.Labor felt that if it did not strengthen its position during the war it would be badly set back on the coming of peace. Unionizing drives ran smack into ancient prejudices. The battle at Bethlehem was only a skirmish in C. I. O.'s long effort to organize that company. Trouble started last week when an election of officers to the Employes' Representation Plan (which NLRB declared to be a company-dominated union) was flaunted in the faces of C. I. O. steelworkers. The Washington News commented: "Both...
Gibraltar, where Colonel Donovan went next, is the key to the Mediterranean. And the key to Gibraltar is Spain. England and Germany are fighting for the seduction of Spain; England with food for the immediate present, Germany with promises of future prosperity and aggrandizement. But if Germany loses this skirmish, she may by-pass Spain and reach for the coast of West Africa, where she would be in a position to cut the Cape-route lifeline and draw the cord of strangulation tighter about Britain's neck...
...with orchids and iron-grey curls; Hamilton Fish of Garrison, N. Y., 52, rangy, headline-hungry, with a brazen voice and a longtime suspicion of England; George Holden Tinkham of Boston, Mass., 70, bald, potbellied, with jowl-whiskers like a Russian droshky driver. Mr. Fish, veteran of many a skirmish with old Mr. Hull, and knowing that the Secretary's innocent, suffering face masks a hot-pincers talent of repartee, gave up the witness swiftly, but prodded furious, bulbous Tinkham in to violent questioning. Hull seemed relaxed, as he politely parried Tinkham's assertions. Typical Tinkham "question...