Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jewish Agency warned that Jerusalem would become a battlefield when the British withdrew. Said a spokesman: ". . . In any battle for Jerusalem we would be most anxious to respect the holy places but, in practice, it will be impossible...
Daddy's Girl. How do you become the best figure skater in the world? In Barbara Ann's case, a casualty on the battlefield of St. Julien in April 1915 (13 years before she was born) had something to do with it. Lieut. Clyde Scott of Canada's "Iron 2nd" Battalion had been hit by shrapnel and machine-gun fire in both hips, one knee and one eye, and left for dead. By sheerest luck, a German search party kicked at a pile of bodies, causing Lieut. Scott, who was on top, to turn .over and groan...
Tradition shrieks at this slight on beards. By heards, are pondering heads kept in that proper balance and angle for peering at the checkered battlefield. They filter the impulsive tang from fresh air, admitting only the essence of mouldering decay so much a part of chess atmosphere...
...Grant's Army of the Tennessee was nearly driven into the river. Grant, off in Savannah, Tenn. at the time, was plainly at fault, but four times during the battle he sent messengers to Wallace, to hurry up replacements. Wallace's men did not reach the battlefield until after dark...
...following day Wallace did well: the defeat became a victory, though a costly one. But he could never live down the fact that it had taken his men six hours to reach a battlefield six miles distant. Some time after the battle, he got a leave of absence to visit Indiana, see the dentist, buy some summer clothes. The governor asked him to make recruiting speeches. He said he would rather be in the field. The governor said, "There is nothing doing there." Thus Lew Wallace learned that he had been relieved of his command...