Word: battlegrounds
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...focus. Out of Spain last week came the clearest picture yet of a tottering regime. Franco's country, unreconstructed, is hungry, sullen, restive. He has not a strong friend abroad, and precious few at home. Of the two powerful allies who forged his victory, Italy lies prostrate, the battleground of foreign armies; Germany, no longer able to do him any real good, still has the means to work him grievous harm. In an economic sense he is living on the measured bounty of the "Western Pluto-democracies," which he once scorned for their weakness...
...having broadened and deepened his knowledge since he was a young rebel against "Federalist" historians, Charlie Beard was bound to do a mature book on his ideas about the Constitution and what it has meant to the U.S. And since his own mind has been a battleground, it is not surprising that the book, published under the Platonic title of The Republic, should also be cast in the form of a series of Platonic (or Socratic) dialogues. To his study high up on a Connecticut hillside overlooking the Housatonic valley, Charlie Beard has invited an imaginary Dr. and Mrs. Smyth...
Heavy rains came down upon the eastern battleground. The mud clutched at cannon and tank, swathed marching men's feet with a heavy, sticky cast, and blackend the battles' dead. But, from Velikie Luki down, nine army groups, including perhaps 27 armies, early this week pushed and plunged at the German Dnieper line - at Kiev and Melitopol, Zaporozhe and Dnepropetrovsk, Gomel and Cherkasi...
Miles to the west of Stalingrad's bloody battleground, Rokossovsky and his colleagues fought this week toward the fruition of the great Red Army's war. From Ladoga to the U of the Dnieper, the front was aflame and moving. The Russian maiden's light burned bright. And Rokossovsky knew how to lead the maiden's soldier through Hell and the Wehrmacht...
...that the Poles are Slavs with hearts. The Russians say that the Poles learn nothing and forget nothing. Europeans in general say that Poland cannot exist as a nation without the friendship of either Germany or Russia, who for centuries have used Poland's flat land as a battleground, between Slavs and Teutons...