Word: battleground
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...Clinton and Nancy Reagan, Mrs. Bush seems to embody the cold, corporate feel of the Bush administration. The Clinton era of relative glitz and glamour, with frequent trips to Hollywood and European capitals, have been replaced with sojourns to that earthy ranch in Texas, and frequent trips to electoral battleground states such as Florida and Pennsylvania. Sexy controversies like sex scandals, lying about sex and allegations of sexual misconduct have been replaced by more sober controversies like corporate scandals, lying about threats to our national security, and allegations of blowing an intelligence agent’s cover...
...places that mark the battle lines of a long-dead war. The great threat today is not Soviet attack but radical Arab-Islamic terrorism and instability in that part of the world. Hence the redeployment of American forces from the plains of Europe, Korea, perhaps next Japan, to the battleground of today: the Horn of Africa, Central Asia, the Persian Gulf...
...traumatized but still making color notes. His sketches formed the basis of paintings like We Are Making a New World (1918). The sun sends searchlight beams through clouds the color of dried blood, illuminating blasted trees and pitted khaki sludge. In The Menin Road (1919) Nash depicts the ravaged battleground almost as a Renaissance altarpiece, complete with symbolism and grand scale. In the foreground, the sickly light reflects off a flooded shellhole in which a uniform and helmet float, surrounded by rusty fronds of barbed wire, concrete blocks and curls of corrugated iron. The many limbless trees have more presence...
...strategy discussions last Friday, party activists were asked to stand in different parts of the room according to the option they favored: run a presidential candidate in an all-out nationwide campaign; run only outside battleground states to avoid siphoning crucial votes from the Democratic Party candidate; or simply support whichever Democrat gets the nomination. Running an all-out campaign was the overwhelming favorite. Some Greens - including Nader, the party's candidate in 2000 - have indicated they could support Rep. Dennis Kucinich, one of the pack of Democratic presidential hopefuls. But, said Green Kevin McKeown, mayor pro-tem of Santa...
...Saigon bleeding from a shrapnel wound but famously dropped off his film at his agency's office before seeking treatment. As a boy, Shimamoto watched American B-29 incendiary bombers weave through flak above nighttime Tokyo (a "beautiful sight," he recalled). Potter's childhood was a different kind of battleground. His mother overdosed on sleeping pills that he, then a teenager, had fetched for her. He was so desperate to experience the Vietnam War that he enlisted in the Marine Corps, despite (or maybe because of) the objections of his Quaker father...