Word: battlegrounds
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...intrepid team, led by Captain Deac "Not Meek" Dake, trouped through the downpour to their traditional battleground behind the Stadium. Arriving promptly at the ordained 9 a.m. rumble time, the Crime warriors posed for the team portrait shown above...
...events and the campaigning itself. Richard Nixon's margin at this point seems not only comfortable but overwhelming. The first of a new series of TIME Polls, conducted by Daniel Yankelovich Inc., between July 24 and Aug. 7, took soundings from 2,320 representative voters from 16 "battleground" states, including seven deemed critical by both parties. * The sample, interviewed in depth by telephone concerning wide-ranging issues and attitudes, gave Nixon a 2-to-l edge over George McGovern, 56% to 28% . Among Democrats (47% of those polled), McGovern won only 45% to Nixon's 37%, while McGovern...
...Pennsylvania town has degenerated into a tourist trap. Fried-chicken stands, ice cream palaces and motels clutter the surroundings of what Lincoln called consecrated ground. Two years ago, Maryland Entrepreneur Thomas Ottenstein announced plans to erect the most garish attraction yet: a modernistic 307-ft. observation tower overlooking the battleground, complete with $750,000 worth of audio-visual equipment to provide what Ottenstein calls a "classroom...
Most of Lenadoon's 6000 residents marched away from their homes in protest against the British military presence they said made the area a battleground. Most of the evacuees have stayed away...
...raids were in support of a 20,000 man South Vietnamese counter-offensive on the northern front. They had the two-fold objective of destroying North Vietnamese troops and supplies already on the battleground and cutting off reinforcements and war materials reportedly moving south...