Word: battlefield
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...Dulles knew what he was doing. He encountered adamant British opposition to his proposed warning as "prejudicial" to the Geneva Conference, and dropped it without a fight. But it had served its purpose: to make everybody aware that Indo-China is a crucial battlefield for all free nations and that the U.S. so regards...
...difficult and frustrating. But on all essential points Britain and the United States, together with the other nations who contributed to stopping the Communist invaders, are united in purpose. We will not let each other down at the conference table any more than we did on the battlefield...
...Honest John" artillery rocket, smaller and more mobile, with a 15-mile range for battlefield support of infantry. A freeflight missile, uncontrolled by electronic devices, it is aimed like a conventional artillery piece but packs a much bigger punch. Even carrying ordinary explosives, one "Honest John" furnishes fire power equal to hundreds of artillery shells...
...good right arm. Every so often he twitches his left shoulder too, to exercise it, but where his left arm should be there is a white bandaged pouch like a hornets' nest taped to his body. This foreign legionnaire's left arm was amputated on the battlefield at Dienbienphu...
...politics as in warfare, the terrain of the battlefield is crucial. Unfortunately statehood bills must pass a chamber barricaded by a group of Southern Senators prepared to fight the admission of states which might send proponents of civil rights to Congress. In earlier years these Southerners have been able to win minority party support to combine the two statehood proposals into a single bill, and then use this twin measure as a target for filibustering...