Word: battlegrounds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After three years of just liberated talk to feed on, it seems only logical that Harvard should be desperate for the old, the familiar separations, a richly laid out sexual battleground. And sure enough, last spring in Dunster House the Boys got together for a bachelor fling and acted out this nostalgic retreat--a bunch of stags, drinking it up, chumming it up over dirty stories, studding the egos up with dirty displays, and even making a contest out of it, cross-legged in a large circle so that everyone could hear, on and on until the sordid details were...
...became Premier, and his half brother, Prince Souphanouvong, who became a follower of North Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh and headed the guerrilla Pathet Lao. Fighting between their forces continued fitfully for years, and the war in neighboring Viet Nam turned dreamy little Laos into a strategic battleground, a Communist sanctuary and supply route between North and South...
...President mentioned achieving "peace with honor," but it is a dubious and troubling phrase to apply to Viet Nam. No matter what honor the U.S. could still extract from that cruel battleground, honor must now be sought at home as much as abroad. As Kissinger put it in his briefing: "Together with healing the wounds in Indochina, we can begin to heal the wounds in America...
...simply trying to get thin, or whether they are pursuing health or even salvation through diet, Americans are perhaps more preoccupied than any other nation with what to eat, what not to eat, how to eat and even when. It seems that the American kitchen has become a battleground as people in growing numbers rebel against the American way of eating. If the methods are sometimes dubious, the cause is worthy. While a small minority in the U.S. is still underfed because of poverty, the huge majority packs away enormous quantities of edibles. The superficial cost is low; Americans spend...
...real battleground," says Economist Fabian Estape, "is Spain's place in the world. Those now in positions of power and those seeking power are sharply divided on the issue. One of the greatest ways to embarrass this government would be to issue it an invitation to join the European Economic Community." That is not likely to happen, although the EEC is about to allow Spain generous tariff reductions on industrial goods and most agricultural products...