Word: skirmishings
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Captain and number three man Jeff Weigand lost his first skirmish of the season to a belligerent Cadet in the third game. Again, after a Barnaby conference, Weigand launched his potent artillery at the hapless Cadet for the match victory...
...battle began at 6 a.m. and ended long before he left Boston. On the Lexington Green, residents acting as the British redcoats will have routed neighbors dressed as Minutemen and marched off to participate in Concord's parade to the old North Bridge, the site of the second skirmish. Residents of both Lexington and Concord regard the hordes of tourists-up to 500,000 are expected-as the real enemy and are suitably prepared. There will be 200 portable toilets, 60 lunch stands, 19 Red Cross stations and 400 National Guardsmen standing by in case of trouble...
...speech by President Ford and a re-enactment of the Concord skirmish--with Boy Scouts dressing up as Redcoats--will highlight official festivities at the bridge Saturday morning. A similar re-enactment will be observed in Lexington...
However, attackman Rick Griebe of the teachers college answered with three goals and five assists before leaving the game after a skirmish with Crimson defenseman Jeff Flanders, late in the fourth quarter with the Crimson down...
...question, Mrs. Thatcher had breakfasted at Claridges with Henry Kissinger (who pronounced her "quite a girl"). Then she went to the House of Commons for her first serious parliamentary skirmish with Prime Minister Harold Wilson, who had just returned from a visit with Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev in Moscow and was feeling ebullient. Such dealings with the Soviets were fine, declared Mrs. Thatcher, provided they "never lull this House or this country into a sense of false security." In an unsubtle reference to the Tory leader's admitted lack of expertise in foreign affairs, Wilson condescendingly retorted: "Some...