Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that our men have the morale and have the equipment and have the necessary means of seeing that we keep our commitments in Viet Nam.'" Then he poked his left fist forward. That, he said, represented U.S. diplomacy's continuing effort "to get us away from the battlefield and back at the conference table...
...buildings. Wrecked cars lay around the streets like swatted beetles. Sidewalks were buried under huge shards of glass and chunks of concrete that had filled the air at the riots' height. The glint of sunlight on thousands of brass cartridge casings gave the eerie look of an abandoned battlefield−which it was. "This is just a quietness," said a Negro minister. "The riot is not over...
...hundred Union soldiers fought it out with a tiny Confederate force on the Rio Grande. Those were the last shots fired in the War Between the States. But the ensuing silence did not long endure. Before the year was out, hostilities had been resumed on that bloodless battlefield where all wars, all campaigners and all causes go after they die: the history books. Today, one century later, it begins to seem possible that historians will go on enthusiastically rewriting the war until kingdom come...
Gentle Wisdom. As always, Catton deals gently with the profound errors in generalship that, on both sides, tragically upped the cost in blood. The worst he can find to say of the Union's Ben Butler, who never once did the right thing on any battlefield, is that his "military operations defy rational analysis...
...President, this was "a triumph for freedom as huge as any victory won on any battlefield. Today the Negro story and the American story fuse and blend...