Word: battlefield
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...curator goose-stepped visitors in, goose-stepped them back to the door, giving them the Nazi salute. The pictures on show included charcoal drawings of hefty nudes, portraits of young, haughty Nazi soldiers (Adolf Hitler was not on display), sardonic drawings of Alabama shanty homes, scenes of the African battlefield, sketches of their stockade...
...staked on the Wisconsin primary of April 4. If he wins a majority of Wiscon sin's 24 delegates, he is still in the running for the G.O.P. nomination. If he does not, practical politicians were ready (& eager) to write him off. Willkie himself chose the battlefield, and it was a tough one. He chose a state partly within the reading orbit of the Chicago Tribune, a state that pledged its votes to Dewey...
Late winter frosts swept over the Eastern Front, hardened sodden roads and swamps, dusted the battlefield with snow. Red Armies pushed forward hard. Time was precious. In another three or four weeks spring would lay its warm, sticky hand upon this land...
...this bloody, stubborn Italian front, the biggest continuing battlefield for U.S. and British soldiers, the immediate responsibility for the Allied command rested with slim, trim, incisive General Sir Harold R.L.G. Alexander. Ultimate responsibility rested with another soldier whom the world knew more as a military name than a personality: huge, burly, genial General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, Supreme Allied Commander in Chief in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations...
...adequate community care for her children, and by relieving her of the burden of obtaining and preparing the main meal of the day. Third, give us the truth about our defeats as well as our victories as soon as they happen, whether these are on the homefront or the battlefield. When these things are done and a fair and truly comprehensive count is taken, the whole world will realize that there's nothing the matter with American women and there never has been...