Word: refought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disperse or destroy their enemies. Mission accomplished, they moved on to resume their sweep through jungled A Shau Valley, searching for Communist troops and stores. But the battle for Hamburger Hill, as G.I.s had christened Ap Bia while taking casualties of 84 dead and 480 wounded, continued to be refought far from A Shau...
Like Gettysburg, El Alamein and other classic engagements, the Battle of Chicago seems destined to be endlessly refought. Unlike most textbook conflicts, however, no one can agree upon who won, let alone who the aggressors were or whether the battle need ever have occurred at all. When the President's commission on violence opened hearings in Washington last week, the nation's two top law officers, Attorney General Ramsey Clark and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, were firing from opposing sides...
INCREDIBLE VICTORY, by Walter Lord. The 1942 Battle of Midway, refought through the recollections of survivors on both sides in a manner that conveys the dizzying tilt of every sinking ship...
Historians never seem to tire of running over the same Civil War battlegrounds. They have fought and refought the great campaigns, while often slighting the larger issues of the war-why it occurred, and what it achieved. Literary Critic Edmund Wilson. 67, returns to the more troubling questions of the Civil War in a book that at first glance hardly seems history. Omitting the usual battle data, he threads together in haphazard chronology a series of essays on the literature of the war. Modestly keeping in the background, intruding only occasionally to make a judgment, he lets the people...
...mistress of a 65-year-old painter who has a studio down the hall. When the old painter dies of a heart attack (induced, say the neighbors, by too much Cecilia), it is Dino's turn. What follows is the old sexual war that Moravia has refought too many times. In scenes so explicit as to make publishers of cheap paperbacks slaver for the reprint rights, Dino dies a thousand deaths on his cross of flesh. Characteristically, Moravia says that all this is simply a way to show that Dino is trying to achieve "reality"' by rediscovering...