Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...behind these smiling faces and smitten backs were sullen tempers that threatened to ignite a partisan hotfoot and turn the session into a bitter political battlefield (see cut). Southern Senators had agreed on the strategy to be used against any civil-rights program-Harry Truman's or the Republicans': filibuster at the first show of a bill. Most Republicans, taking their cue from noncommittal Tom Dewey, were waiting for the reaction to Harry Truman's message to Congress; but among them there was also heady talk of forcing a swift adjournment...
...revolt was over, but the struggle had left the Democratic Party exhausted and gasping. Surveying the battlefield, political pundits summoned up their gloomiest parallels. Not since the South rebelled against Stephen Douglas in 1860 had the party seemed so hopelessly torn and divided. It was the inevitable climax to 16 years of one-party leadership...
Last week pursuing Nationalists found Chen Yi waiting for them on a battlefield of his own choosing. Chen's 100,000 Red troops were ranged along a 35-mile stretch of Honan basin land below the Lunghai railroad. The core of Chen's force was made up of veterans of his slashing campaigns in Shantung province. These tough regulars were fleshed out with elements from the army of one-eyed Communist General Liu Po-cheng, and local Red guerrilla bands...
...World War II listened grimly to familiar British commands, given in a cool, clipped English voice, over the Arab communication net. With a deadly precision in sharp contrast to the inefficiency of Arab volunteers, the Arab Legion laid down heavy mortar fire. Haganah girls crawled out on the battlefield to bring in the wounded...
...political battlefield of Europe it would be the climactic tactic of the war of nerves-the cunning offer of a salve for the nerves the Communists themselves have shredded. There would be a deep, unreasoning sigh of relief from millions of Europeans. It would rise spontaneously and without reflection and it would be heard happily in the halls of the Kremlin. With rehearsed righteousness, a picture would be drawn of the West appearing before a Communist bar of justice, and if the accused did not agree to a 'reasonable' solution, then the jury would be asked to pronounce...