Word: battlefield
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...Though he promoted the Act of Congress that established the Battlefield of Gettysburg as a national monument, Sickles lacks a statue there...
...does something rare in dramatic history. She makes a believable human being of the sentimental prostitute. But it is Mickey Rooney who brings off the best scene: a crap game so shatteringly funny that it almost breaks up the picture. And at the end, as he staggers across the battlefield in desperate pursuit of the money, of the future that blows away from him forever, the audience is confronted with an image that may almost suggest the mindless immensity of man's fate...
...Philippines, where an Asian culture is heavily leavened with Spanish and U.S. influence. Tourists visiting the islands in hope of seeing the World War II battlefield on Bataan are likely to be disappointed; it is hard to get to and has few tourist facilities. But there is much more to see and do: the handsome Philippine Capitol at Malacañan Palace, where President Magsaysay enjoys shaking hands with visitors, tours through the tropical countryside which include a look at native dancing and cockfighting plus a whopping big Filipino meal (a barbecued pig, prawns, coconut ice cream eaten...
Raise the Dead. Himself a paratrooper and winner of a battlefield commission (and now a TIME correspondent in Britain), Novelist Brown paints combat in its primary colors of blood, mud and terror. He also etches telling vignettes of the lunatic grotesqueries of war, e.g., a paratroop major with 20 ft. of primer cord wrapped around him and 40 lbs. of explosives on him is hit in the chest by a tracer bullet as he stands ready to jump, and reels back into the plane with the primer cord smoldering, but a quick-witted sergeant kicks him out, and he explodes...
Date of Conflict: About 1100 B.C. Battlefield: The plains before the city of Troy, also known as Ilium, rediscovered in 1872 by the excavations of Heinrich Schliemann at the site of the modern Hissarlik on the River Scamander in northwest Turkey, just south of the Aegean entrance to the Dardanelles...