Word: battleground
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seats will shift from one party to the other. At the outset, 100 Southern seats are conceded to the Democrats. Elsewhere, e.g., in the Republican strongholds of the Midwest, there are many other seats that can be shifted only by a political miracle. The real battleground narrows down to few more than 50 seats, two-thirds of them held by Republicans, one-third by Democrats...
Situations & Personalities. Where national issues have no meaningful local application, most of the races in the 50 battleground districts are turning on local personalities or intraparty feuds or on both. Example: in Pennsylvania's Eleventh District (Wilkes-Barre), Republican strife is undercutting Representative Edward J. Bonin. The trouble began last spring when Republican Governor John Fine moved into his old bailiwick, Luzerne County, in an effort to unseat State Senator T. Newell Wood. Fine managed to beat Wood in the G.O.P. primary, but Republicans lost so much blood in the battle that Benin's campaign developed a serious...
...Battleground: Geneva's decision reached out to Vinhyen, 25 miles northwest of Hanoi, where the late Marshal de Lattre de Tassigny had won France's most notable Indo-China victory 3½ years before. At Vinhyen the French were deploying 5,000 men against four Viet Minh battalions, in the last big fight of the war. "The battle for the delta is a good battle," insisted General René Cogny, but his soldiers now knew that their purpose was useless. "All we're doing is wasting ammunition," grumbled a Parisian sergeant, "and maybe...
...Snead fans are betting that this time he will. Most agree with Gene Sarazen, who says: "If he doesn't make it this time, he never will." The Battleground. For days before the big battle began, at New Jersey's Baltusrol Golf Club, the contestants toiled along the fairways and the fast, king-size greens, trying to learn the secrets of the layout...
...year-old building on the North Side. There, in upholstered comfort, he smokes cigars at a furious rate (twelve to 24 daily) and thinks about the architecture of the present and future. Architecture is great, he thinks, "only when it is an expression of its time. Architecture is the battleground. It is a struggle to find the essential factors...