Word: battlefield
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...taught a deep respect for Southern political and social life. At 17, he enrolled at West Point where he studied military leadership with many other future generals of the Civil War, including both Lee and Ulysses S. Grant. With a number of his former classmates, Longstreet gained real battlefield experience in the Mexican War during the 1840s. As the Civil War broke out in 1861, Longstreet, like Lee and other Southern officers, recognized his primary allegiance to the South and resigned from the U.S. Army to join the Confederacy...
...computerized triage system that can track the diagnosis, status and location of patients in both civilian and battlefield trauma-care units...
...what I was trying to do. I was much relieved when he uttered the words I had been hoping for, "Oh, yeah, I know how to do that." He walked swiftly out of Room B13, the office for UAs in the East Terminal Room, and onto the battlefield, as fully confident as he appeared...
...gift of comfort is a powerful theme in angel stories; whether on the battlefield, in the hospital wards, or at the bedside of the dying, angels are traditionally portrayed as bearing souls away to heaven. They reassure both the patients and those they love that whatever will come next is not to be * dreaded. "When Christians die," Graham writes, "an angel will be there to comfort us, to give us peace and joy even at that most critical hour...
During a United Mine Workers Association strike a few years ago, for example, local police had to call in federal and state agents to help control strike-related violence. Portions of Pittsburgh were transformed into a battlefield as striking workers detonated bombs to damage business property, threw molotov cocktails, hurled rocks at replacement workers and tried to warn them off by using nails to puncture their car's tires and threatening their lives...