Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gruesome Ritual. The Fore people, estimated to number 10,000 and only now emerging from the Stone Age, live in a 240-square-mile area 90 miles west of the famed World War II battlefield of Lae (their existence was unknown until 1932). Kuru was first noted in 1951. The disease has not only decimated the Fore, but has become an obsession in their sorcery beliefs. When a kuru victim dies, the kinsfolk pick out a sorcerer suspected of responsibility for the death, do away with him in a gruesome ritual murder called tukavu, in which they pulverize his muscles...
...Give us the right atmosphere, and we will sow towns and cities in place of theories, and place enterprise and production above politics. We will show you how to achieve in peace a much fuller independence than it is possible to win on the battlefield or across the negotiating table. Without sacrificing the rich spiritual qualities of your ancient traditions, let us show you how to build a better material life. We will carry forward this historical revolution in the way that people everywhere most long for−the way of better living standards of individual liberty and justice...
...hear. He banged the can vas with a towel soaked in yellow paint, kneaded flake-white pigment into snowballs, and pitched them at the dripping oil, slapped on more paint with rapier-quick strokes, seized handfuls of paint tubes and leaped up and down the length of the battlefield. At the peak of his fury, he was ejecting tubes over his shoulder with the cyclic action of a machine gun, until he finally slowed down, devoted the last 20 minutes to adding only a touch of paint here and there. Total elapsed time: no minutes. Title: The Battle of Hakata...
Dick Russell did not direct the tactics that broke the bill. That was the work of Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson, who was more interested in holding together a Democratic Party than in preserving the extreme rights of the Deep South. But Rearguard Commander Russell chose the intellectual battlefield, laid down the lines of argument, and was never dislodged by the overwhelming manpower mustered by the Republican leadership, by the Democrats' own liberals, by the brigades of Administration lawyers, or even by the President of the U.S. It was one of the notable performances of Senate history...
...spike. It must be simple enough to be understood by "the milkman in Omaha,"* as an old dictum from New York once put it; at the same time, as former U.President Hugh Baillie once demanded, it is supposed to "flame like a candelabra on a dark and muddy battlefield." Between the milkman and the candelabra...