Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...People's Role. In the agony of revolution, in the process of becoming a battlefield, a battered and buffeted nation might be finding its soul. It might be reaching back across the years to pick up again the democratic thread woven in a history of foreign oppression and domestic tyranny. Before Magna Charta and King John, Italy's northern cities had won self-rule from the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa. Florence and Venice had once borne the title of republic. But the trend had been beaten down through the centuries when the peninsula served as the cockpit of Guelph...
...worked manfully as foundry-man, professional prize fighter, machinist, sign painter, stonecutter and, finally, sculptor. The versatile Connor also found time to serve as a Japanese intelligence officer in Mexico. But it was with the chisel that he really made his mark-most notably with the Nuns of the Battlefield tablet located in Washington, D.C. He was bound, his friends swore, to provide a superb piece of statuary for the plinth in Cobh...
...country seemed destined to become a battlefield. To keep their hold and ensure a pro-Nazi regime, the Germans might send in an army of occupation; the Allies might counter with an invasion of the Balkans; watchful opportunist Turkey might now enter the war on the Allied side. Cabled New York Timesman Ray Brock through the Turkish censorship: "The time might come when the Turks would consider it necessary to march into the Balkans in order to protect Turkey's frontiers and security...
...Taking Of White House Hill" (TIME, Aug 2). It comes as a welcome relief from the usual military correspondent's report, so thickly studded with task forces, combat teams, objectives, bridgeheads, zones of advance and other military terminology as to make the average reader come to view battlefield operations as a combination of chess and football...
...kind of aerial war. with strategy and tactics made possible by the unique combination of day & night bombers, and by the quantity of subsidiary aircraft for diversionary attacks which the U.S. and Britain could supply. The effects of their joint offensive have already been felt on every battlefield in Europe. If they can overcome the German defenses, their campaign may decide the war before an Allied soldier has set foot on western European soil...