Word: battlegrounds
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...from eleven to 20, occupy themselves chiefly with the protection of their own "turf" (territory). Trespassing on one gang's turf by another gang-or the stealing of another's property or girl, even an insult-may bring on councils of war, choice of a battleground, scouting forays. Finally comes the "rumble," a bloody combat with knives, machetes, guns, rugged garrison belts and-a favorite weapon -skin-slashing automobile-radio aerials stolen from any handy...
...Senate investigating committee that was hotly divided in its attitude toward the fiery United Auto Workers leader. Democrats would try to protect Democrat Reuther; Republicans were hoping to provoke him into left-wing excesses. Reason: the four-year-old Kohler strike is the nation's major labor-management battleground...
...real battleground may be the south, because Khalil's Umma and El Azhari's N.U.P. are thought to be almost equally balanced in the north. Who will win in the south is anybody's guess. In the last elections in 1953, many southern tribesmen arrived at the polls under the impression that the government was going to give them a big party. A few arrived drunk on dura (millet) beer, and at one polling station a naked tribesman appeared smeared from head to foot with white wood ash. Asked why, he replied with simple dignity...
Acheson dismissed the possibility of America's adopting a strategy of fighting a nuclear war with tactical weapons on a European battleground as "militarily impractical and politically obnoxious...
RECIPROCAL TRADE will be major congressional battleground next year when current laws expire. Protectionists are gaining strength in Congress; they will push hard to wipe out laws under which President Eisenhower can lower many tariffs whenever similar concessions are granted by foreign countries. White House has given notice that it will fight to have laws extended, though it may have to accept some changes...