Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...featuring, not surprisingly, balls of paint for bullets, has become the sport of choice for corporate retreats, bachelor (and bachelorette) parties, birthdays, anniversaries, celebrations and the occasional paramilitary get-together. For seven years, Boston Paintball has provided the citizens of Boston with paintguns, protective gear and a warehouse-like battlefield...
...Sameera, don't go!," I beseech her. But it's too late. When she returns, I see a changed woman. Out on the battlefield, it's a harsh, brutal world. When you're alone and surrounded by enemies, sometimes you have to kill the part of yourself that's human. Her eyes look older and wiser. The pain has made her into a hardened woman. She will never feel the same way about the smell of fresh paint. Or permanent markers...
...Great Gatsby and The Sound and the Fury in the top 50, he's also added Starship Troopers and several works by Stephen King. Four works in the top ten are by Ayn Rand. Number one, Atlas Shrugged, has received many more votes than the first non-Rand entry, Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard. Clearly, this suggests not that Ayn Rand is at the forefront of America's literary tastes, but rather that a lot of Objectivists have been surfing...
...first inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln spoke to a nation darkened by the breaking storm of the Civil War. He closed, "The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature." In those days, long before the advent of mass education, Lincoln had no doubt that Americans maintained a communal memory of their history...
...highest-profile legal-defense job in a generation was made in large part by Richard Gephardt, the House minority leader, and two other committee Democrats, Barney Frank and Howard Berman. The goal, say insiders, was to bring in someone capable of fighting a partisan war on a legal battlefield. "This situation doesn't call for a law-school dean, former-judge type," says a source familiar with the decision. "This could be a pretty scrappy fight...