Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said again that NATO's Supreme Commander should have greater control over what Barry has now begun to call "conventional nuclear weapons." Said Goldwater to the veterans: "Let me stress that these small conventional nuclear weapons are no more powerful than the firepower you have faced on the battlefield. They simply come in a smaller package." Barry's argument was directly disputed two days later before the same audience by Deputy Defense Secretary Cyrus R. Vance, who snapped: "How 'conventional' was the 'small' weapon over Hiroshima? The typical tactical weapon was several times...
Though beaten on the battlefield, friendless and imprisoned, King Charles stubbornly insisted on his divine right to rule and refused to acknowledge Parliament's supremacy. Cromwell and his Republican supporters were determined that the King should die after an elaborately rigged state trial. After ramming the indictment through Parliament, Cromwell handpicked 59 judges to try the King, and sat among them himself. The prosecutor hectored the royal prisoner, who was not even permitted to defend himself. Roundheads in the gallery shouted: "Execution! Execution!" One of the judges finally leaped to his feet, crying: "Have we hearts of stone...
...MULTIPURPOSE RIFLES. For infantrymen who have always longed for rifles that can be fitted out to serve efficiently as magazine-fed light machine guns or heavy-volume belt-fed machine guns, the Defense Department is testing two such weapons systems under battlefield conditions, and trained marines make the transformations in less than 1 min. while wearing clumsy Alaskan mittens...
...infantry in 1947, sent to metropolitan France for advanced training, and after his return given command of Viet Nam's first native airborne battalion in 1950. With the French engaged in their war against the Communist Viet Minh, Khanh led his paratroopers in a jump onto the Hoabinh battlefield of North Viet Nam, scene of a French defeat that was only slightly less disastrous than Dienbienphu, carried out a valiant rearguard action covering the French retreat. Khanh finished the war, in which he was wounded (he still likes to pull up his shirt to show his scars...
Coupled with the Albee production is another shorter one act play, considerably less fortunate in both material and execution, "Picnic on the Battlefield" by Arrabel...