Word: skirmishings
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...were sent last week to occupy Managua, the capital of Nicaragua. Round about the city marched and countermarched the armies of the usurper, President Chamorro and the Liberal counter-revolutionary leader, onetime Vice President Sacassa. Total casualties for the week were roughly estimated at 100. After a particularly fierce skirmish, President Chamorro courteously requested the commander of the U. S. gunboat Tulsa, which was anchored at the port of Corinto, to steam seven miles up the coast to the scene of battle and take care of the wounded, since neither army was equipped with a medical corps. Dutifully the Tulsa...
...Volley firing presently skirmish firing with lemous and cases individually aimed without much regard to joint effect...
...team has scrimmaged twice this week, and a good line has been obtained on their relative ability. In the practice skirmish with the Law School five Wednesday, in which the University triumphed 40-13, the floor work of Captain Smith was especially notable...
...Bailey," famed London bar of justice, the first skirmish in "Britannia's war on the Reds" (TIME, Oct. 26, Nov. 2) ended last week when twelve prominent Communists were sentenced to jail by Mr. Justice Swift, after a jury had taken but 20 minutes to find them guilty of conspiracy on three counts: 1) uttering and publishing seditious libels; 2) violating the Incitement to Mutiny Act of 1797; 3) seducing the armed forces of the Empire from their duty...
...their shooting irons, winking covertly at one another, a band of U. S. marauders crossed the Canadian border. At a given signal, the wooded hills and dales of the Lambton Country Club (Toronto, Ont.) rang with shots. Staunch Canadian pars dropped on all sides. In the first nine-hole skirmish of the Dominion open championship, defending Champion Leo Diegel (of Great Neck, L. I.) so ventilated his scorecard that it totaled but 32 shots. A 37 in and he tied the course record, led the field. Brazen-faced Walter Hagen, chin higher than ever, touched off a spoon shot...