Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were able to save our air force." He went on to make the amazing assertions that no Egyptian tanks or armored cars were lost in battle against the Israelis, that the Egyptian air force had shot down 18 Israeli planes and had been "in control of the battlefield" until the "great deception, treachery, perfidy" of Anthony Eden. The fact that none of the other Arab states gave Egypt active military assistance was also, said Nasser, part of Egyptian strategy. "King Saud called me by telephone," said the Egyptian President, "and told me that the Saudi Arabian army and money were...
Fourth Day. When dawn broke over the tank battlefield of Abu Aweigila, the Israels discovered that in the darkness the Egyptians had pulled out what was left of their armor, to scurry to safety west of the Suez. A considerable remnant got away, but the Egyptians' one big punch had failed...
...would and did. Frequently using the pronoun "I," which he generally shuns, he spoke feelingly of his efforts to foster military desegregation during World War II. As far as he knew, Ike said, he was the first combat commander who ever incorporated Negroes into white units on the battlefield, and "they all got along together." Thus, when the Administration came to power in 1953, "it looked to us like it was time to take the bull by the horns, and eliminate it all, and that is what we have done." Ike's point, in line with his insistence...
Like its mascot, the reborn 101st Division has not yet realized in fact its symbolic potential. But the ingredients are there. When fully trained, equipped and tested, it may provide the Army with the answers it desperately seeks for survival and victory on the atomic battlefield...
...whose political prestige was placed on the November line by his effective convention support of a Stevenson-Kefauver ticket, launched into a 20-minute argument for an all-out Democratic endorsement. Labor, said Reuther, must protect its bargaining-table gains in the political arena. "We did not choose the battlefield," he cried. "Our enemies have gone there, and that is where labor must go to protect itself...