Word: skirmishings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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General Uyeda at 7:30 a. m. launched his military attack, striking straight for the race course, and expecting to occupy Kiangwan (just beyond) within two hours. Advancing in skirmish formation, the Japanese soldiers prudently took cover behind each tree or hummock before advancing to the next, and ahead of them a Japanese barrage of overwhelming power advanced, blowing the Chinese out of their trenches. Thus there was very little bayonet work...
Suddenly the little skirmish at Slonta became international news. Rome jubilated. Back at headquarters it was discovered that the oldster was none other than the great Senussi chieftain Omar el Muktar, bravest and most implacable of Italy's native foemen...
...streets the Lisbon citizenry did considerable execution by hurling home made bombs at each other. At nightfall a few survivors of the besieged rebels in the forts managed to escape to the mountains after a savage skirmish in the Lisbon Zoological Gardens...
...Quite a skirmish ensued over whether or not the five other directors of the Royal Mail were guinea pigs...
...several years there has been a tense attitude of waiting along the public utility front. Stirrings in Congress and many a local skirmish have hinted that a decisive battle would some day be fought between Private Enterprise and Public Regulation. Last week in the Midwest the sharpest utility conflict of years was in full swing, one with giants as principals...