Word: battlegrounds
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Laid principally in Kentucky, Author Gordon's story alternates between plantation scenes and eyewitness accounts of the shifting Western battleground. The domestic pictures are much the more successful. The war episodes, in which real but rarely actualized figures like Grant, Forrest, Bragg, Longstreet and Polk appear, are marred by many a lampy smudge. The narrative opens after the First Battle of Manassas (Bull Run to Northerners), once gets dangerously near Gone With the Wind territory, touches such historic happenings as the fall of Fort Donelson, Forrest's raid on Murfreesboro, the Battle of Chickamauga. Principal characters...
...personally don't feel the slightest doubt about my own election or the success of the entire Republican state and national ticket," declared Haigis. New England has been safe G.O.P. territory ever since 1934, he feels. The real battleground is in Pennsylvania and the states west as far as Illinois. New York he considers as virtually in the Landon column...
Aside from the battleground of the Middle West, New York State with its forty-seven votes is the most luscious plum in the electoral pie, and Governor Lehman's record is one which should convince any thinking voter to "try try again" with the Republican ticket. For four long years, the Empire State's capital has been infested with a complete, though small-scale New Deal government. Lehman has made of the most powerful state in the union a mere pawn in the hands of his eccentric leader in Washington...
...straw vote the important thing to note is the trend of public opinion. The Gallup polls show a sharp nation-wide swing away from Roosevelt. In only seven States has there been a gain in his popularity. In the Middle West, the real battleground in this campaign, there has been a general subsidence in the pro-Roosevelt sentiment...
Holy Land for three religions and battleground for 4.000 years, Palestine was last week ravaged by new violence. Combatants were Palestine's 770.000 Arabs and 375,000 Jews, with British High Commissioner Lieut. General Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope (pronounced "walk-up") the harassed umpire...