Word: skirmishing
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Another time, during a jocular skirmish, my roommate graffitied on the wall (in pencil, of course), “Ben is a faggot.” We look back on this and laugh: The day a hate crime was visited on Currier House...
...image that was made public on Valentine's Day looks like an extraterrestrial bouquet, a blossom from another galaxy. But it is a revelation from a skirmish in deepest inner space, one with huge potential promise in the war against AIDS. The twisting green "stems" are a rare antibody called b12; the red "florets" are a surface protein of the HIV virus; and the yellow area where they meet is the virus' point of vulnerability, where the b12 antibody latches on to start neutralizing the deadly entity that causes AIDS. The 3-D X-ray crystallographic image, released as part...
...meat of Langguth’s book is the buildup that culminated in the War of 1812. Regarding the escalating tensions between America and Britain—manifested in the tense naval skirmish between the Chesapeake and Leopard in 1807—Jefferson is quoted as saying, “never since the battle of Lexington have I seen the country in such a state of exasperation...
...this border stuff.’ The next morning we saw Israeli planes flying over the site, and thought it was only border violence,” she said. Later that day, she heard the Beirut airport had been bombed, and realized this wasn’t a standard skirmish...
...pressing President George W. Bush to send Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to the region to engage in Henry Kissinger-style shuttle diplomacy. But it's not clear that anyone has the ability to get the belligerents to calm down. And the longer Israel and Hizballah keep up their skirmish, the greater the chances it will spread out of control...