Word: battlegrounds
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Thus consigned to Coventry, far from the Michigan battleground for votes in the union elections next year, Richard Frankensteen sighed: "There never was any question of whether I would go. There is work to be done out there...
Perennial battleground of the ancient world was Armageddon, which lies about ten miles south of Nazareth, 15 miles from the Mediterranean coast of Palestine. The Hebrew word is har magiddo, which may originally have meant "fruitful mountain" or "desirable city." Megiddo, the name by which the site is known to modern archeologists, guards the pass from Egypt through the Carmel ridge to the once-rich valleys of the Euphrates and Tigris. There, according to the Old Testament, "Pharoaohnechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria" and Josiah, in disguise, battled against him. * There Thutmose III of Egypt...
...might have seemed. Plain purpose of the midnight letter was to make front-page news in time to affect House debate on the bill which for a month has been causing the major political battle of the nation. Day after the Senate passed the bill last fortnight, the battleground shifted from Washington to Warm Springs when Franklin Roosevelt told an outdoor press conference its passage proved "that the Senate cannot be purchased by organized telegrams based on direct misrepresentation." Next day the Senate spent most of its time gloomily asking itself whether the passage of the bill...
...many times repeated in-three milleniums. At Shanghai,- nearly 100,000 Japanese troops were already involved. The campaign could no longer be fought locally. A new field of operations had been opened and the great triangle between Peiping, Shanghai and the mountains on the west had become a potential battleground...
...coast- the Bill Green of the West but an aggressive, two-fisted Bill Green. The Longshoremen and the Teamsters are the two strongest unions west of the Rockies, their leaders the two bitterest enemies. The warehouses, which lie between the docks and the teamsters loading platforms, are their present battleground...