Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...MEDICAL TREATMENT FOR SEVERELY INJURED PLAYERS Imagine how much less enthralling Homer's Iliad would be if impaled Trojans were carted off the battlefield on comfy stretchers. Leave the bodies on the field--play over them. At least consider employing primitive on-field-treatment modalities. The home team's tight end is writhing in pain with a torn anterior cruciate ligament. Lose the leg and get him back in that huddle. Imagine the excitement when the miked referee signals with a hacking, amputating motion, "It's comin...
...year old Rep. James Rogan (R-Calif.), one of the more outspoken of the House impeachment managers. With control of the House in question, these factors have turned the wide, palm-lined streets of the San Gabriel Valley north of Los Angeles into a high-profile political battlefield. The New York Times Magazine cover story two weeks ago reported the race in California's 27th Congressional district is the most expensive in history. Democratic challenger and state senator Adam Schiff and Rogan have raised a combined $10,104,475 according to Federal Election Commission numbers released Tuesday...
...Gore campaign's gamble on Florida could turn out to be a brilliant battlefield maneuver, but it could also be remembered as a fatal blunder. Bush aides say the Vice President's concentration of time and money on the Sunshine State has cost him in other regions. "They thought they could fight us on our own turf in Florida," says Matthew Dowd, Bush's polling guru, "but while they were doing that, they let things slip" elsewhere. When the Texas Governor began running ads in traditionally Democratic West Virginia last summer, the Gore campaign responded for a few weeks, then...
...kilometers, with strong determination. We swore to sacrifice our life and blood for al-Aqsa. Hundreds of the marchers rushed to the front line to clash with the soldiers. I could not forget these moments. The shooting from the Israeli soldiers was intense. It was like a battlefield. Our faith is our weapon against the soldiers, the occupiers. Two youths standing next to me were wounded. The number of casualties was large beyond expectation...
...Gore campaign's gamble on Florida could turn out to be a brilliant battlefield maneuver, but it could also be remembered as a fatal blunder. Bush aides say the Vice President's concentration of time and money on the Sunshine State has cost him in other regions. "They thought they could fight us on our own turf in Florida," says Matthew Dowd, Bush's polling guru, "but while they were doing that, they let things slip" elsewhere. When the Texas Governor began running ads in traditionally Democratic West Virginia last summer, the Gore campaign responded for a few weeks, then...