Word: skirmishes
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...many men, Oedipal conflict lasts long after they have resolved their feelings toward their mothers. Fathers and sons may skirmish for decades, matching physical prowess, social grace, perhaps sexual daring and, above all, worldly accomplishment. There is rarely a true reckoning; death and memory seem only to prolong the sense of contest. Sons of famous men find the scorekeeping particularly onerous: whatever the offspring's achievements, both generations are likely to suspect that the father's glory enhanced them. That psychic battleground is toured by Michael J. Arlen, 53, a journalist, memoirist and television critic...
...Britain registered a $1.17 billion trade deficit for April, instead of an anticipated small surplus. The trend could well continue. Scargill called off further picketing after Wednesday's clashes at Orgreave. But on Friday an estimated 3,500 miners again turned up at the beleaguered plant, and another skirmish with police took place. Elsewhere, there were signs that the striking miners might be gathering support. Ken Livingstone, the radical leftist leader of the Greater London Council, called for a mass union uprising against Thatcher "because the government is starting to be vulnerable." He proposed "a total stoppage of every...
...discoveries so far have revealed fresh details. Hundreds of shells from the troopers' Springfield carbines and the Indians' Henry .44-cal. rifles have been numbered, bagged and plotted on maps. The shells have established previously unknown skirmish lines and indicated that by battle's end Indians were using Army ammunition taken from dead soldiers...
...skirmish in the war between CBS and Westmoreland
...controversy began several weeks ago when B.C. Captain Martin Clark quit the team after B.C.'s March 14 win over St. Joseph's in the N.I.T. tournament Clark's announcement came several weeks after a skirmish with B.C. Coach Gary Williams in the locker room after defeated B.C.'s regular season victory over Syracuse...