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Word: battlefield (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ought to know better than to keep on politicking with national defense. As a matter of fact, they ought to be called strictly to account by the American people for using this subject as party glue. I'll say simply this: we Republicans greet the opposition on this battlefield with as much anticipation as on any other they can conjure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Salt & Pepper | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

...Kremlin but a half mile away in the three-story, pastel green and yellow Moscow building that houses the secreariat of the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R. There, behind a door bearing only the brass nameplate "Comrade Khrushchev, N.S.," the First Secretary has been tidying up the political battlefield following his sensational breakthrough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Tidying Up | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

...brighter. Of late it has run stories about such long-taboo topics as organized crime, prostitution and homosexuality, not infrequently reports that a person has died rather than "passed on"-a sharp departure from World War I days when, it is related, a hard-pressed correspondent, described a battlefield littered with "passed-on mules." When it comes to profit, the Monitor has netted only $260 in the past 15 years; it firmly excludes a long list of advertisers it does not condone (e.g., whiskies, tobacco, patent medicines, coffee, tea) and refuses to run any ad containing the abbreviation "Xmas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Newspaperman's Newspaper | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

...stems from the nature of modern investigation. As research becomes more complex, it also becomes more expensive and shows less possibility of reaping a financial gain. Therefore the Department of Defense has become the primary patron of science in this country and has transplanted its military thinking from the battlefield to the laboratory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sputniks and Security | 11/22/1957 | See Source »

Their object was to follow a '57 A. C. Bristol Aceca, which left ten minutes earlier and dropped lime markers along a twisting, sixty-mile route that ended at the Concord battlefield. In addition, a hidden checkpoint clocked their speed, which had to be exactly 26 miles per hour...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Car Clubs Rally | 11/12/1957 | See Source »

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