Word: skirmishes
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Such actions may have impressed Arabs-but not their Israeli conquerors, to whom true peace seems as distant as ever. Jordanian and Egyptian troops fired on Israeli border positions five times last week. During one skirmish at the mouth of the Suez Canal, the irritated Israelis finally wheeled up tanks and mortars and bombarded the Egyptian resort town of Port Tewfic, killing 44 and wounding 170 others. Two days later, Israeli Premier Levi Eshkol flew to the Suez battlefront and told his troops that "we must be on our guard and hold the positions and frontiers that our forces have...
...latest skirmish in the battle between aesthetes and sociologists has proved inconclusive. Clive Barnes, dance critic for the New York Times, took steps to parry a Harvard sociologist's study of dancing, but his sarcasm couldn't diminish the deadpan humor of the scientist's study...
...Last War of Olly Winter" Combined a sense of news-broadcast immediacy with Ivan Dixon's powerful portrayal of a Negro sergeant caught in a jungle skirmish. It brought back the best dramatic techniques of TV in the fifties, and was a welcome relief from the thirty-minute-plots we have become accustomed...
...World War II in the U.S. That is the number of Americans still living, out of a total of 16.3 million, who served in the armed forces during the war. A good proportion of this group will almost certainly find something to carp about in this bulky history-a skirmish ignored, a river crossing forgotten, a campaign brushed off, a battle mentioned only in passing, a hero underrated, a sequence out of order...
There had been some question about where the skirmish should take place. At first the Poonies wanted to stage it in front of the Lampoon castle on Mt. Auburn St., but later they conceded that it might be safer in Soldiers Field...