Word: skirmishes
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...Europe would have seemed like a wholly improbable nightmare. Not any more. A tax scheme, originated by France and rapidly spreading throughout the Common Market and Scandinavia, has started an increasingly bitter skirmish between the U.S. and its Euro pean trading partners. Officials have ex changed threats of reprisals and counterreprisals, and no solution is anywhere in sight...
...entirely in the latter category. He seems to dislike women. But he also derives considerable amusement from being outrageous in his various literary poses, while needling society with invective. In one of his guises, Montherlant greatly resembles Shaw and his assertion that the sex war is really a standoff skirmish between the Man of Moral Passion and the female Life Force...
Until the last moment, it seemed as if the fight might be avoided; most of the striking students had called it quits long before the final skirmish. They had struck in the first place to protest the old order - outdated lectures, remote professors, inflexible administrative practices. And they had won resound ingly. Acting President Ichiro Kato and the administration of Japan's greatest institution of higher education had agreed to a 10-point program that promised the students a large share of authority...
...resolved to break the mold in which family and education had cast him -not, with paint brush but with pencil -he privately published a book of verse. Then, after a bout as a medical corpsman in the Turkish-Montenegrin skirmish before World War I, and marriage to the sister of an Oxford friend, he served the Empire as an assistant district officer in Nigeria. That Empire in its heyday has been described as a "system of outdoor relief for the upper classes." Cary needed the relief; his money...
...teetering skirmish, each side uses its leverage to unbalance Timmy. His mother is wounded by his sudden indifference to her demands. His father, who no longer enters his wife's bed, becomes a figure of sputtering frustration, visiting "hotel-lobby whores" and cursing what he loves. His incessant fulminations undo him; he wastes his thunder on minor disappointments, and he is empty when he gets the truly bad news that Timmy has abandoned the church...