Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israeli breakthrough on the Golan forced battlefield decisions on both sides. For the Syrians, the choice was between falling back to defend Damascus or standing fast on the El Quneitra-Damascus road in an effort to halt the Israelis. For the Israelis, the decision was how far they should try to move along the road to Damascus. By week's end at least one Israeli force had penetrated more than ten miles beyond the cease-fire line set in 1967; but other Israeli troops were still meeting stiff resistance at the cease-fire lines. The Syrians were standing...
...issue of deep personal concern. I for one was astounded that a meeting called to describe and evaluate the current military round in the Arab-Israel conflict was transformed into a jingoistic exercise, with protestations by several Jewish members of faculty of their frustration in not being on the battlefield as the measure of the speakers' value to the discussion...
...while the Faculty debated ROTC, protest against the Vietnam war dramatized the University's role in supporting the U.S. military. Napalm was invented in Harvard's labs. Much of the anti-personnel technology used on the electronic battlefield was developed from projects conducted by Harvard's Division of Engineering and Applied Physics...
Some 18,000 pigeons (1,000 for each year of Perón's exile) were to be released. But by the time they were set loose, the 50-acre meadow below had turned into a bloody battlefield. Volleys of shots rang out, and thousands of people fell to the ground or scrambled for shelter, screaming. When the shooting stopped, 34 Argentines lay dead and 342 were wounded. They were victims not of police or army violence but of bitter hatreds within the movement that calls itself Peronism-a polymorphous organization that encompasses old-line union chiefs, Trotskyite students...
...1950s owned a string of gas stations in Austria. When the Nazis came in 1938, the young entrepreneur fled to Paris and later to England. Broke and speaking only fractured English, he joined the Pioneer Corps and from there secured a transfer to the Royal Engineers as a battlefield tank mechanic...