Word: battleground
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mustered altogether 4,000 U. S. citizens. Last September the Spanish Leftist Government disbanded it. Those who filed last week from the third-class gangplank of the Cunarder Ausonia to a Manhattan dock had left behind some 2,000 killed and missing, 250 captured at Belchite, Brunete, many another battleground. (Others are still in Spain or convalescing in France, and 870 veterans had already returned...
Thus consigned to Coventry, far from the Michigan battleground for votes in the union elections next year, Richard Frankensteen sighed: "There never was any question of whether I would go. There is work to be done out there...
...Gendarmes were called out to handle 2,000 people who tried to crash the gate. "The giants kneeled down and tried to frighten one another with grimaces, then rushed headlong at one another. . . . Legs and arms got so mixed that the field, strewn with wounded players, looked like a battleground after the charge...
Perennial battleground of the ancient world was Armageddon, which lies about ten miles south of Nazareth, 15 miles from the Mediterranean coast of Palestine. The Hebrew word is har magiddo, which may originally have meant "fruitful mountain" or "desirable city." Megiddo, the name by which the site is known to modern archeologists, guards the pass from Egypt through the Carmel ridge to the once-rich valleys of the Euphrates and Tigris. There, according to the Old Testament, "Pharoaohnechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria" and Josiah, in disguise, battled against him. * There Thutmose III of Egypt...
...might have seemed. Plain purpose of the midnight letter was to make front-page news in time to affect House debate on the bill which for a month has been causing the major political battle of the nation. Day after the Senate passed the bill last fortnight, the battleground shifted from Washington to Warm Springs when Franklin Roosevelt told an outdoor press conference its passage proved "that the Senate cannot be purchased by organized telegrams based on direct misrepresentation." Next day the Senate spent most of its time gloomily asking itself whether the passage of the bill...