passage of arms

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Reported by Jay Branegan/Washington A disputed passage of arms Ronald Reagan's arms control negotiators face an immensely difficult task in trying to push their Soviet counterparts toward an agreement.

From Time Magazine Archive

This was the Honorable D. S. Dickinson, the contemporary in politics of Webster, who found in him, in many a passage of arms, a foeman worthy of his steel.

From Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 by Bartlett, D. W.

With this brief passage of arms each sank back into his corner, and nothing more was said.

From Tony Butler by Lever, Charles James

Her passage of arms with des Ageaux had not tended to soften her feelings.

From The Abbess Of Vlaye by Weyman, Stanley J.

Your uncle and I often have a passage of arms together.”

From The Haute Noblesse A Novel by Fenn, George Manville