Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have never missed dinner together, whether at public banquet or in fireside privacy), McCormack too is, in effect, wedded to the House. Heir apparent to Rayburn, leader of the New England Democratic bloc, grey, sharp-featured John McCormack is, in his own words, his party's "field general." His battlefield is the House floor, his weapon one of the House's toughest and most partisan tongues. "I'm a great believer in the two-party system." he says. "But I think the Democrats should be the majority party...
...Nevertheless, the argumentation so carefully reported in the volume's chapters on agricultural, industrial, financial, conservation, labor and relief policies seems very much spur-of-the-moment philosophy. Schlesinger does manage to create one plausible clash of ideologies in explaining the New Deal: "The Tennessee Valley Authority ... became another battlefield in the struggle which divided the early New Deal--the struggle between the social planners, who thought in terms of an organic economy and a managed society; and the neo-Brandeisians, who thought in terms of the decentralization of decision and the revitalization of choice...
Surveying the battlefield, British Aluminium Director William J. Thomas said ruefully: "We were sitting ducks." Said a spokesman for the winners: "If you asked me what mistake they made, I'd reply in one word: arrogance. Their kind applauds the rules and practices of capitalism only when it suits them...
Less than 30 minutes after his arrival at Gettysburg, Ike was settled in a comfortable chair on his heated, glass-enclosed porch facing out upon the battlefield. Then he went to work on the papers that lay before him-the draft of the State of the Union message to be delivered next week, and a preliminary draft of the presidential budget message to be delivered shortly thereafter...
...veterans produced explosions of creative effort," says James F. Mathias, a 79th Division infantryman commissioned on the battlefield in Normandy, who came back to screen Yale's returning G.I.s and now helps screen candidates for the Guggenheim Foundation's annual awards. "The new talents are obvious in the sciences, but they are just as great in painting, music, writing and scholarship." In routine matters, they did still better. Veterans and their wives settled down and became the generation to cut the wartime divorce rate in half, raise the birth rate 26.2% in a decade, demand that schools teach...