Word: skirmishes
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...denied, but officially confirmed by the Japanese War Office, was a subsequent skirmish on half-Russian, half-Japanese Sakhalin Island. Soviet frontier guards were said to have crossed the border and fired on a band of Japanese policemen. The incident developed into a dogfight in which, the Japanese claimed, "a dozen" Russians and "several" Japanese were wounded...
...haul off "ringleaders." In dormitories, where many who had not turned out for the demonstration were still in their night clothes, some of the students hastily piled up barricades of tables, beds and chairs. Others fled into the night amid a, spray of Nazi machine-gun bullets. When the skirmish ended, scores of the wounded were carried off to Prague hospitals...
Dick Harlow drove his Varsity gridmen through another long workout yesterday afternoon as preparations went on at a fast clip for the Bulldog skirmish Saturday. For the second day in a row the squad moved over underneath the Stadium lights for the final 15 minutes of work with the dummy bags...
...Helping Mr. Churchill's very proud but none too agile Royal Navy last week were two of the three escapist destroyers of the Polish Navy. They joined in a North Sea gunning match with several Nazi airplanes. In the skirmish, nobody got hurt...
Last week when Elmer Layden's troops (three complete teams) trotted into The Bronx's Yankee Stadium for their 26th annual skirmish with Army, 78,000 spellbound spectators watched them. Most of them had never seen either West Point or South Bend, but this was their "Homecoming Game." Notre Dame rooters were proud of their team's record. In five games so far this season it had defeated Purdue, Georgia Tech, Southern Methodist, Navy, Carnegie Tech-none of them pushovers. But to Army rooters that record was just the luck of the Irish: a field goal...