Word: battlefield
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...number of proxy fights. Last year, the Episcopalian Church introduced a resolution requiring GM to wind up operations in South Africa. (Harvard voted against it; like the GM proposals, it was defeated by a wide margin.) This year other churches and foundations may join consumer organizations on the proxy battlefield. Farber said Harvard will be prepared...
Almost anyone can write with a certain flair about battlefield heroes. Charles Fair, author of this delightfully eccentric volume, has chosen instead to commemorate the battlefield villain, the truly bad general who invariably manages to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory...
Barred from the battlefield, correspondents were told by laughing officers, under blue skies, that what sounded like the booming of artillery was really thunder. "Soon it will rain," grinned one of the officers, squinting in the blazing sunshine...
CARIBBEAN Bay of Piglets Revisited It was mocked as Britain's "Bay of Piglets," and one war correspondent cabled Fleet Street from the battlefield: "I say, chaps, the natives are friendly." That was two years ago, when then-Prime Minister Harold Wilson sent a company of paratroopers to capture the tiny (35 sq. mi.) West Indies island of Anguilla, a onetime possession cutting loose its British apron strings. The islanders had tried and rejected a British-sponsored association with the neighboring and more economically advanced islands of St. Kitts and Nevis; now they wanted to return to their colonial...
This is the kind of book that we could look back on years from now to say yes, that was it, that was how we won our own battles for freedom. It is also a book we can look to now to show us that the battlefield is within ourselves, that we are the enemy, the only salvation...