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• n  a lively or heated interchange of ideas and opinions
• n  fire from two or more points so that the lines of fire cross

• In the midst of the defense battle, Dwight Eisenhower last week stood under some of the sharpest crossfire of personal attack since he stepped into the presidency.
• Caught in the crossfire, Christian Democratic Premier Aldo Moro asked the Vatican for a list of all its Italian stockholdings, assuring the Holy.
• Director Neal Gross of the Harvard School-Executive Studies last week described the sort of crossfire the nation's schoolmen are in.

News & Articles

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• Sylvia Day's Entwined with You Debuts at #1 Everywhere
  NEW YORK, June 19, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Entwined with You , the third book in Sylvia Day's Crossfire series, which includes #1 international bestseller Bared to You and #1 New York Times bestseller ...
  June 19, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
• Mississippi couples in crossfire of ruling on gay marriage
  Mississippi stands to be caught in the crossfire of what could be one of the most high-profile cases since Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling that ended segregation.
  June 17, 2013 - Hattiesburg American
• Colombia's long-elusive goal: land reform
  Caught in the crossfire between far-right militias and leftist rebels, 40 families abandoned the farm they shared in the foothills of Colombia's Montes de Maria range. The land repeatedly switched hands ...
  June 17, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Ric Keller in Washington Post
  At this late stage, interjecting more young American troops into the crossfire of an Iraqi civil war is simply not the right approach,said Rep. Ric Keller, R-Fla.
• Antonio Trillanes IV in Guardian Unlimited
  For the safety of everyone, we're going out ...... because we cannot live with our conscience if some of you get hurt in the crossfire,Antonio Trillanes, one of the officers on trial, told reporters.
• Jim Marrs in Forbes
  Is this going to solve the case, create further investigation or change anybody's mind? Probably not, but it supports the contentions of conspiracy researchers all through the years,said Jim Marrs, whose book, "Crossfire: The Plot That...