Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's early success sent the Cadets running for cover, but the invaders still had a little fight in them. Lacking goal-scoring power, Army still turned Bright into a battlefield. Bodies flew. Benches cleared...
When London Merchant Peter Durand patented the tin can in 1810, the world was changed forever. Canning revolutionized life on the farm, in the kitchen, on the battlefield. In the 20th century, life would seem primitive and deprived without cans. In 1986 some 102 billion canned items were manufactured. One category of container, the aluminum easy-open beverage can (69 billion produced last year), has so proliferated that the mere existence of empties has engendered a brand-new folk industry. Can picking, some call...
...necessary for a commander to fight at the head of his soldiers? Keegan's answers: Alexander always, Wellington often, Grant no more % than necessary, Hitler never. Keegan attributes this chronological evolution to the continuing development of longer-range weapons, which made a general's presence on or near the battlefield increasingly perilous. At the same time, technology also provided the telegraph, telephone and radio, making possible the commander's separation from his troops. This trend reached its culmination in World War I, when the "chateau generals" on both sides lived in comfortable villas far from the trenches and ordered futile...
TIME's reporters dashed from scene to scene gathering impressions. "Trying to cover a stock market crash," said Senior Correspondent Frederick Ungeheuer, "is a little like trying to find out what's happening on a battlefield." Ungeheuer dispatched members of the New York bureau to cover upstairs trading rooms and to the floor of the exchange. Other reporters were in every major bourse in the world, from Tokyo to London, from Chicago to Los < Angeles. Back in New York City, Senior Writer George Church tackled the dramatic downturn with the authority of his many years as the magazine's premier...
Bush has regained a comfortable lead in the polls. He has survived the indignities of being Vice President, a man subject to harsh indictment from right and left without the freedom to respond. And suddenly Bush is no longer alone on the battlefield. Other mortals have become targets. Bush can sound silly -- using phrases like "deep doo-doo" and telling reporters last week after visiting Poland that Soviet tanks rarely break down and the workers who make them should be sent to Detroit "because we could use that kind of ability." But that pales beside the glandular and verbal flare...