Word: battlegrounds
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...freshmen year. (And even preppies aren't exempt. If anything, their malaise begins even earlier.) Spring used to provide an opportunity for the Annual Freshmen Riots. Last year, the Riots were pre-empted by the occupation of University Hall, and suddenly romanticism had found its proper battleground...
...solitude. Precisely because it is linked to intricate webs of life around it, the park may now be doomed by the rising water needs of Florida's farms and cities, plus the construction of a mammoth jetport a few miles away. The result has made the Everglades a battleground between conservationists and developers-and a testing ground for U.S. environmental policies...
Tobaccomen may try to attract customers by spending more heavily for coupons and perhaps contests. They may also bring out more and more new brands. Chairman Robert Walker of American Brands (Pall Mall, Lucky Strike) says that "the battleground for cigarette sales will probably switch to other media...
...young boy who is in the center of the film is caught in a home of pervading ugliness and static emotional vacuity. Trapped in the background at a dinner table which serves only as a battleground for his parents (a grotesque self-parody these since they are played by Cahbrol himself and his beautiful actress wife Stephan Audran), he tries to escape first by minor acts of destruction and finally by placing plugs in his ears. After he does so, Chabrol repeates scenes we have witnessed earlier, only this time without sound. As expressed by a slightly closer camera...
Hayakawa urged the faculty to fight back-showing himself to be an obvious leader whom the trustees soon picked as acting president. When he took over, the campus had shut down -a battleground of arson, bombings and police raids. How would Hayakawa handle...