Word: battleground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slaught by Communist troops, fearing that this time it may be even more pro longed and vicious than either the Tet or early May offensives. High-level defectors have said that a major Communist drive is in the making, and last week's relative silence on the battleground around the capital ominously underscored the point. As always when girding for a big campaign, the Communists had turned elusive, building up their strength and avoiding villages they knew to be swarming with South Vietnamese government agents...
There was a connection there, we all realized at once. The war is America, and America is the university. And suddenly the university became the battleground, in a comfortable, fun university-way. From being students we had gone to become Vietcong at the Pentagon, then to become blacks15Ronald H. JanisWashington, D.C., October -- Soldiers defending Pentagon watching demonstrators begin to stick flowers down their rifle barrels...
Today all of Eastern Europe is seething. The primary battleground are those of art and letters, but once the initial breach is made on that front there is no holding back--for culture is as related to the political process as teeth are to eating...
...when he quit Washington for Wall Street in 1966. Candidly calling himself "the devil's advocate," he persistently opposed deepening the U.S. involvement in what he terms the Vietnamese "gluepot." Far more Europe-minded than his friend Dean Rusk, Ball believes that by making Viet Nam a major battleground with the Communists, the U.S. has failed to cope adequately with De Gaulle, jeopardized any new approach to China, and let the problem of a divided Germany fester far too long...
...Face of War grinds no axes, pleads no cause. The war it shows is the specific war of small and large necessities, braveries and sacrifices, and its record of this battleground should endure long after the agony is ended...