Word: battleground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Cong defections have increased to an unprecedented rate of 80 a day. So low is the guerrillas' morale that Tien Phong, the South Vietnamese Reds' party journal, suggested recently (see THE WORLD) that Viet Cong leaders may not be able to afford to concentrate only on battleground activities and might better focus on the "political struggle movement...
Tommy & the Deluge. The battleground was the annual college draft, and pro football's version of Pork Chop Hill was Tommy Nobis, a 230-lb. All-America linebacker from Texas whose collar size (19½) alone was enough to make both leagues reach for their checkbooks. Tommy was drafted No. 1 by both the N.F.L.'s newly franchised Atlanta Falcons and the A.F.L.'s Houston Oilers. With no coach, no schedule, no training camp and no plays, the Falcons apparently had nothing to offer Nobis except money: by last week they had already sold...
...sheer annihilation for the hard fighting men of the 1st Air Cav. Time after time, U.S. fighter-bombers swept down in the nick of time to break up human-wave assaults by the North Vietnamese. In four days of fighting, the Air Force flew 260 sorties over the torn battleground. That was just part of a week's work for the 550 South Viet Nam-based planes that dropped more than 1,500 bombs and sprayed some 500,000 rounds of 20-mm. cannon shells on the enemy in dozens of places throughout the country...
...editorial page, with ink on paper, one dimension only. His style is not a part of his fight. He lives in the way that best enables him to maintain contacts, to gather information, to report the news. He pooh-poohs questions like which side are you on. In the battleground of Mississippi, where those words are on everybody's lips, the good newspaperman alienates half his readers with every sentence...
Miller's outline shows that he would have treated the American battleground under several headings besides law and evangelicism, including Philosophy, Nature, Education, Theology, Political Economy, and the Self. In the published sections, specific opponents are ceaselessly pitted against each other (codification clashes with the Common Law, revivalism with orthodoxy, etc.) while more transcending combat takes place in the background (the head against the heart, union against division). Always a dramatist, Miller emphasizes again and again the outcome toward which these conflicts move, and a great heavy sense of the coming of the Civil War shapes the book's inexorable...