Word: battlegrounds
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...freedom from unnatural clamor is pleasant proof of it. Some of the picture's atmosphere is directly due to Wyler's World War I experiences. He was twelve when the war began, and his parents' home in Mulhouse was French. Alsace-Lorraine was a major battleground. Mulhouse changed hands a dozen times before the Armistice, and Wyler spent considerable time underground. His most vivid memory: crawling out of the cellar after each conflict, wondering whether he was French or German...
...Battleground. To reach these stores Germany must fight her way over one of the most fought-over areas in history...
...From the shell fire of the battleground...
Southward from the Celebes Sea, toward Java and the rich oil wells of Balikpapan, the Jap drove last week. All had gone his way up to then in the Dutch Indies; nowhere had he been defeated in his Pacific battleground. Before him now was the final conquest of the Indies, perhaps a final grip on the Pacific world...
...President Roosevelt addressed the nation last night, there were indications that the Philippines had become the core of a 10,000 mile land, sea, and air battleground...