Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henry's patron and Britain's greatest soldier, General Sir Archibald Wavell, said last year: "The Caucasus, Iran, Iraq and Syria may well prove to be the great battlefield of 1942." He knew, and Hitler knows, that 1942 is the Germans' one year to fight for the bridge. The year is running out, and Hitler's armies are still at the approaches. The Allies' hope is to hold the Germans there. If the Germans reach the bridge this year, the Allies will probably lose all the Middle East...
Even if his story were true, his actions in southeast China had all the earmarks of a desperate gamble: that the United Nations would stick to their decision to concentrate their all on Germany, divert little strength to the China battlefield. For the Jap had given up (at Chuhsien and Lishui) airdromes from which airpower could strike at his industries and military establishments at home and on Formosa. He was about to lose another bombing base at Kinhwa. Whatever he was preparing for next, he knew that these bases were pistols pointed at the heart of his national life...
...breast were four medals for bravery and marksmanship. The Germans got to know her very well: once they called to her by loudspeaker over the battlefield, offering her cake and chocolate to "come over to us." Asked last week how she felt when she picked off her first Nazi, she replied: "How can a human being feel when killing a poisonous snake?" Her score is actually 311. She explained that the first two were not Germans, but Rumanians, and only "trial shots" to qualify her as a sniper...
...rose John J. ("Silent John") Bennett Jr., Attorney General of New York State, to make his first majrar political speech in the dingdong struggle over the Democratic nomination for the Governorship of New York. James Aloysius Farley had kept his man Bennett quiet and withdrawn from the battlefield. This stratagem had two advantages: 1) it kept Silent John from making any mistakes; 2) it left Big Jim free to smite hip & thigh the candidacy of Senator James M. Mead, the man of Franklin Roosevelt...
...Marines landed. Out of the shallow invasion boats and through the surf thousands of them scrambled to establish beachheads on key points in the Solomon Islands. For the first time the U.S. had seized the offensive on the battlefield...