Word: battleground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...battle with several others holed up in a garage; the rioters emerged carrying a wounded woman and waving a white flag. Gradually hemmed in, the rioters attempted to regroup elsewhere, started appearing in widely separated areas of Los Angeles County as far as 10 miles from the original battleground. Threatening bands of Negroes roamed as far west as La Brea Avenue, little more than a mile from hallowed Beverly Hills. Panic seeped through the whole vast city. From Van Nuys to Long Beach, nervous housewives traded rumors of new eruptions. Most citizens stayed home, and the thrumming, garish metropolis seemed...
...Battleground. Korea: 525 miles long, 90 to 200 miles wide; paddyfields in the west and south, mountains reaching to 9,000 ft., inadequate roads, temperatures ranging from 120°F in summer to 16° in winter. Viet Nam: 1,200 miles long by (on the average) 90 miles wide, more than twice the size of Florida; paddyfields, jungles, mountains temperatures averaging a humid 92° in the lowlands, reaching as low as 28° in the mountains...
Villa Fiorita becomes a battleground so fraught with emotional crises that Director Delmer Daves, from the sound of things, must have hired extra musicians to bring pathos to a crescendo. The kids scheme, pray, go on a hunger strike, and occasionally throw up as part of a campaign that Brazzi decries as "legally and morally wrong." But children know best: in such strained and saccharine circumstances, a touch of nausea is inevitable...
...Mekong River from Red-infected Laos in ever-increasing volume. The Thai Communist Party has vowed to "drive the U.S. imperialists out and overthrow the traitorous, fascist and dictatorial Bangkok government." Fortunately, the Bangkok government, backed by U.S. aid, has for the past three years been preparing the battleground to its own advantage...
...were born with defects have won scores of cases, ranging from malpractice suits against obstetricians who damaged them at birth to suits against hospitals where they acquired congenital syphilis through blood transfusions administered to their mothers. The greatest body of litigation in this new field lies ahead. Key battleground: the hundreds of suits now being filed throughout Europe against the West German Grunenthal Chemical Co. and its licensees, makers of thalidomide, the sleeping pill-tranquilizer that caused thousands of children to be born with serious defects...