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Gyring Sopwiths. A vital part of the Lawrence cult was the purity of his war. After the Somme, a new kind of battleground had been given to England: an open mass grave under a leaking sky, inhabited by shell-shocked troglodytes. The filth, stasis, boredom and despair that were the overmastering realities of trench warfare between 1914 and 1918 destroyed the chivalric picture of conflict. That picture survived in only two arenas. One was the sky, where the Royal Flying Corps, the "knights of the air" in their gyring Sopwiths, preserved the image of man-to-man conflict. The other...
...held a clear majority, there were hopes for a coalition government between the three. None of the Angolan soldiers are particularly well trained, but their will to fight has been stiffened by a bewildering array of mercenaries as Angola more and more becomes a big-power pawn and a battleground...
...fast team, and any time we have to play on a field like that it hurts us, since we rely on our speed," Harvard wing Richie Sherman said of the wet and muddy field, which the day before had served as the battleground for several Harvard-Yale intramural clashes...
WOMAN, AS MAN'S most personal and vulnerable possession, became and remained the major battleground on which men proved their superiority to one another. Sometimes, as in the days of chivalrous knights, men jousted for the hand of the other's maiden--indirect rape. More often, however, rape has not been clothed so discreetly with societal justification, rather, it has openly defied society's laws and lawmakers. Eldrige Cleaver in Soul on Ice explained what motivated him to rape this...
...related questions of development and planning comprise the second major battleground for reformers and moderates this fall. While rent control has emerged as the single most talked-about issue in this unusually quiet campaign, city development and rezoning represent, according to Wylie, Cambridge's most important long-term priorities. No candidate favors wholesale destruction of neighborhoods or, alternately, a complete halt to development in the city; the distinctions between moderates and liberals are largely a question of emphasis, but they are significant nonetheless. Convention '75 candidates applaud downzoning-which limits the number of units that can be built...