Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rather than speculation, so a political discussion often involves definitive statements of what is rather then musings about what might be. Most of the Cadets can describe each weapon in the American or Soviet military arsenal, predict its strengths and weaknesses, and most still view the world as a battlefield where it is important that the U.S. arsenal be stronger missile for missile than that of the Soviet Union...
...battlefield, the Communists continued their campaign of sharp, small-scale thrusts into villages and hamlets along the entire length of South Viet Nam in an effort to gain control of more ground before an in-place ceasefire. These attacks, while costly to both sides, tended to keep the South Vietnamese forces off balance, to hit the pacification program by shaking the villagers' faith in their government, and to permit the infiltration of Communist cadre and the recruitment of new troops...
...deserves it, not only as an epic story's culmination, but as the story of a more optimistic age. Presidents were far-off heroes, almost royalty (even when, like Arthur, they were political hacks), and progress, however tarnished, meant the Bridge and not the Automated Battlefield. The scene is not only fascinating history, it is also great and bittersweet fun, reminding us of a time when we were less betrayed...
...elegance that suggests Prince Andrey Bolkonsky in Tolstoy's War and Peace with that passion for bearing truthful witness at all costs that has been the center of Solzhenitsyn's own career as a writer. In August 1914, though, Verotyntsev is too busy carrying messages around the battlefield (and from the author to the reader) to seem entirely human...
...Senator can attract rank and file worker support. Dutton also expects McGovern to tap sufficiently a general resentment against the powerlessness of individuals and the power of big Government, business and labor so as to cut into traditional Republican strength in the suburbs, claiming "That's where the battlefield...