Word: fields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Describing a night fusillade, the New York Times War Correspondent G. H. Archambault caught the eerie nature of this war of waiting: "A watcher in some trench may fire at what he imagines to be shadowy shapes crawling toward him. His shot proves contagious. Machine guns begin their battle, field guns lay down a barrage, howitzers begin pounding the rear zone to immobilize reinforcements. Fire answers fire, and the entire sector is ablaze...
...talking with the survivors afterward when a little girl-ten or eleven-ran up. Some one had told her that her sister was in the field. Her sister was one of the dead. We helped her find the body...
Correspondents on their way to the front (see p. 58) also will submit to a double censorship: once in the field, again at the end of their special wire to London. To most newswriters it was clear last week that Britain's official press hierarchy, though changed in form, was little changed in substance, might prove no less muddleheaded than before...
Last week, on the first full-fledged Saturday of the football season, U. S. citizens momentarily stopped criticizing military maneuvers on the Maginot Line, turned their attention to the field maneuvers of their favorite college football teams. Some of the games that kept them kibitzing long after the sun went down...
...page's edge. Other dodges of his: asymmetric layouts, wide white margins ("space for your laundry list"), photographs with cockeyed perspective. Says he of his devices: "Their effectiveness begins to wear off when everybody does it. . . . If you are different, you are all right." In a field notorious for its vicious circle of mutual imitation, Agha usually manages to be different...