Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...move. . . . Once this is known, a staff of technically trained men can follow any one of the roads indicated by the Smyth report and will then, step by step, discover what we have discovered. . . . It took us . . . three years to achieve the transfer from the laboratory to the battlefield. Other countries should be able to produce atomic bombs in two to five years...
...beginning of a period of psychological reconversion no less important than the readjustment of our economic life. The moral imperatives of the battlefield must be transformed into those of a free society which believes in the supreme significance of each individual man or woman...
...Cochin China was cagy, tuberculous Russian-speaking Premier Ho Chin Minh (known a generation ago around the Paris Peace Conference as Nguyen-Ai-Quoc). Followers of Communist Ho Chin Minh insulted and cowed the French in Saigon, tore down the World War I memorial, flung earth from the Verdun battlefield into the Saigon River...
Then, pale as death, Quisling himself launched into a two-day plea for his life. He did not deny any of the state's major charges, but he claimed to have saved Norway from becoming a battlefield. He even boasted of his sentimental friendship with Hitler. With evangelical fervor he called himself a prophet and a patriot. His last feeble shout: "If my activity has been treason, then in God's name I hope that for the sake of Norway many of her sons will become the same kind of traitor...
Sober-sided New York Timesman Hanson Baldwin rumbled: "There is not much use blinking the fact that . . . the Japanese had made us look like monkeys- not on the battlefield, but since fighting virtually ceased...