Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Munitions of Peace." "We shall work with all others-especially through this great organization, the United Nations -so that peaceful and reasonable negotiations may replace the clash of the battlefield. In this way we can in time make unnecessary the vast armaments that-even when maintained only for security-terrify the world with their devastating potentiality and tax unbearably the creative energies...
Impressed by the danger, Ike stopped complaining about the Secret Service. When the service insisted on closing a tourist observation tower atop Cemetery Ridge on the Gettysburg Battlefield whenever he is at the farm, he made no objection. A marksman, standing on the tower with a high-powered rifle, could shoot anyone on the Eisenhower farm...
...feelings are as dangerous as disease, having read articles like "Emotion Can Give You a Running Nose." He is a pragmatist, a materialist, a "healthy sceptic," a "tough realist" -and Author Whitman warns-he is "as inadequate to our time as a bow-and-arrow on a 20th century battlefield...
...exotic matters as Joshua's stopping the earth's rotation to make the sun stand still. ("Given the coefficient of friction between the green grass and the soldiers' britches, how long would it take Joshua to slow down the earth without sliding the soldiers off the battlefield?") DuBridge found himself "enthralled by physics. And I even learned what I had never known before-that it was possible to take graduate work in physics and actually earn money by being a scientist. From that time on, college became an exciting adventure...
...soldier often feels a strange disappointment when he sees his first battlefield. A barn still stands with cattle waiting to be fed ; a tree is green and straight against the sky; hollyhocks are in bloom. Later he realizes what has happened to the people...