Word: battlegrounds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...VICE PRESIDENCY. Reagan's selection of liberal Pennsylvania Senator Richard Schweiker had failed to shake loose many pro-Ford delegates in the less conservative delegations, but it had raised the Veep issue as an emotional battleground. Reagan's bold manager Sears pushed for a rule which would force Ford to name his running mate by 9 a.m. Wednesday, the day of the presidential balloting. Some Ford delegates were eager to have the President put all his cards on the table too. Delegation leaders in the Northeast and pro-Ford delegates from Maine sought assurances in particular that Ford...
...some of the young career men and women, Rosovsky's expanding bureaucracy has provided a battleground for a particular type of heroism. The case of Robert E. Kaufmann '62, assistant dean of the Faculty for finance, is a good example. A record-holding varsity swimmer in his College years, Kaufmann has worked only for Harvard since two years after leaving the Business School in 1964. He has seen tours of duty as director of admissions and senior tutor of Leverett House--among other posts. Since Rosovsky's appointment as dean in 1973, Kaufmann has been charged with whittling the Faculty...
...combatants to hype interest in their June 15 bout. The idea for the gladiator getup came from Fight Promoter Jerry Perenchio, who borrowed two outfits that had been used in MGM's 1959 film Ben Hur. Perenchio's costuming may be entirely apt, but his choice of battleground is far from Rome. Foreman and Frazier will square off at the Coliseum all right-the one in Nassau County...
...patients' own drives to lose weight. Piazza says that anorexics describe "something bad inside them that has power over them--this is what they're fighting. The fight within them is between the part that wants to eat and the part that doesn't. The body is a battleground...
Authors David and Nancy Dall Milton were English teachers at Peking's First Foreign Languages Institute until the Revolution. The couple describe themselves as "Pierres at Borodino," who, like the character in Tolstoy's War and Peace, survey the battleground less as participants than as observers. Their experience provides intimate details of the often mysterious doings of the cultural movement...