Word: battlegrounds
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...rest, not even in the arms of his loving, combat-fatigued wife. His four children must be the best and the brightest, winning at sports and playing to an uneasy draw with him. They must be like him: his eldest son must some day be him. Life is a battleground, and fatherhood is the continuation of war by other means...
...Carter and Kennedy whips worked for every vote, Illinois became a battleground. Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne had flown to New York expecting to switch some 30 of her state's 163 Carter delegates (the largest Carter contingent on the floor) to the Kennedy position on the rule. Her aides applied heavy pressure, for example offering Donna Matteo, 25, a city job if she switched. "But I worked for Carter. I was elected by people who voted for Carter, and I'm going to vote for Carter," she replied...
...their work. Spiritual power lay in rites performed to propitiate thousands of tribal gods. Tribal religion is still strong, but it is gradually losing ground. In the past 25 years Africa has thrown off colonial rule, sometimes replacing it with cruelly oppressive independent governments. It is also the historic battleground between Islam and Christianity, the world's two most powerful monotheistic faiths...
...dealer complaints, and an unprecedented number of disciplinary and dismissal notices. "Workers and bosses were constantly at each other's throats," recalls Gus Beirne, then general superintendent of the plant. Agrees Larry Sheridan, the former United Auto Workers shop chairman at Tarrytown: "It sure as hell was a battleground...
...violent funeral, like Romero's assassination, was a tragic demonstration of how even the church has become a political battleground in predominantly Roman Catholic El Salvador. Of the country's five surviving bishops, only one had seen fit to attend Romero's funeral. The others, described by one priest as "very, very conservative," had been vehemently opposed to Romero's bold stands against the country's repressive oligarchy, which would welcome a military dictatorship. The country's priests are also divided between active, largely urban adherents of so-called liberation theology, and conservative, mostly...