Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact, it was less a Russian feeler than a reaction to various cease-fire proposals made by Douglas MacArthur and others. Malik and Gromyko made news by hinting that the Reds were finally willing to talk battlefield truce; the Americans had long ago expressed their willingness...
Along with their uncommon courage and skill, the flipper-footed, goggle-eyed warriors in swimming trunks bring to the picture the nightmarish excitement of their strange underwater battlefield. Even above the surface, the simple techniques of the frogmen going into action are dramatically detailed: at a rhythmic signal, each man flops out of a destroyer's speeding launch, flattens for a moment on a small rubber raft fastened alongside, then peels off into the sea as the next signal sends another man on to the skimming raft in his place. Below the surface, in a weirdly lighted world...
...Whitney's Counterpoint, the $118,100 Belmont Stakes, the nation's most searching test (a mile and a half) for three-year-olds, over favored Battlefield (by four lengths) and Battle Morn; in New York. Derby Winner Count Turf finished seventh, 20 lengths back...
...expects a battlefield truce...
...dreamed of. Many fine peacetime officers failed in combat (no one fired them more ruthlessly and properly, for cause, than Bradley), and perhaps no one would have been surprised if Bradley had failed too. After 32 years in the Army, he was past 50 when he heard his first battlefield shot, a methodical professional with none of Eisenhower's catalytic ease and none of Patton's bravado imagination. But Bradley had his own virtues: sound tactical and logistical sense, a complete lack of side that won him the devotion of subordinates, and a willingness to take chances when...