Word: battlefield
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Doctor. By this time the street outside, Broadway, was turning into a battlefield. Police extinguished the street lamps, halted traffic and elevated trains running overhead. The four gunmen, reinforced by an arsenal of rifles, shotguns and pistols, fired freely at the moving shapes in the darkness. One patrolman, Stephen Gilroy, 29, leaned cautiously forward from behind a steel girder; an instant later he was shot in the head and fell dead...
...intractable political issues. It is true that the very vagueness of the original draft-not to mention its reaffirmation of Hanoi's "one Viet Nam" position -was highly advantageous to the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong. It is arguable that they won those advantages on the battlefield. But the effect of the Saigon-inspired delay since mid-October has been to weaken, perhaps mortally, the original compromise. Both delegations have been sweating to tie the military and political issues back together in ways that would benefit their own sides. It may be very difficult for anyone to pull...
...rather than speculation, so a political discussion often involves definitive statements of what is rather then musings about what might be. Most of the Cadets can describe each weapon in the American or Soviet military arsenal, predict its strengths and weaknesses, and most still view the world as a battlefield where it is important that the U.S. arsenal be stronger missile for missile than that of the Soviet Union...
...battlefield, the Communists continued their campaign of sharp, small-scale thrusts into villages and hamlets along the entire length of South Viet Nam in an effort to gain control of more ground before an in-place ceasefire. These attacks, while costly to both sides, tended to keep the South Vietnamese forces off balance, to hit the pacification program by shaking the villagers' faith in their government, and to permit the infiltration of Communist cadre and the recruitment of new troops...
...deserves it, not only as an epic story's culmination, but as the story of a more optimistic age. Presidents were far-off heroes, almost royalty (even when, like Arthur, they were political hacks), and progress, however tarnished, meant the Bridge and not the Automated Battlefield. The scene is not only fascinating history, it is also great and bittersweet fun, reminding us of a time when we were less betrayed...