Word: skirmishings
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...officials had in this game, it takes only the description of a single sequence. Midway through the second period, a referee spotted a nearby mass of Harvard and Northeastern players exchanging words and shoves. It appeared that the referee would take action as he aggressively skated towards the skirmish, but as the thin man neared the ferocious women, he awkwardly shied away like a timid child...
...announcement over Radio Pakistan. India, it had said, 'has launched an all-out offensive against East Pakistan without a formal declaration of war.' That charge proved to be false; it was not a full-fledged war?yet. On the other hand, it was certainly not a trifling skirmish, as Indian spokesmen at first euphemistically described...
...continued to dominate the middle stanza, Harvard's frustration mounted and tempers inevitably flared, leading to a skirmish behind the play between freshman defenseman Dave McCulloch and Wildcats' center Sean Austin...
...certainly owes much to his action choreographer, as both a colleague and an inspiration. Some of Crouching Tiger's most sensational exploits echo earlier Yuen films. The spectacle of a lady thief flying over rooftops is a highlight of Yuen's 1994 Fire Dragon. And the up-a-tree skirmish? Catch the warriors perched on flaming poles in 1993's Iron Monkey...
...Gore: "He wants to fight everyone and everything." New eras of warm cooperation have a way of dissolving into cold, familiar warfare, and even good intentions and fond hopes can't always prevent it. A single shot gets fired and returned, and suddenly a sniper attack becomes a skirmish becomes a battle becomes a war. The first bullet flew on the day after the election when Senate minority leader Tom Daschle, a Democrat with a gift for attacking with a mild half-smile, announced that if the chamber ended up in a 50-50 split, he would demand "power sharing...